Even as a newcomer to the world of blogs and blogging I am becoming increasingly aware of the tendency for this venue to become something of a mutual admiration society for the marginalized, semi-marginalized and disenfranchised.
Like Internet marketing, it has to some degree "leveled the playing field" and has provided anyone who yearns a platform from which to be heard, admired and to otherwise bask in the limelight of their own self-aggrandizement and to engage in reciprocation of the same. I regret the degree to which this awareness is autobiographical and applaud all who have avoided this pitfall. The blogs I subscribe to are exemplary in their avoidance of this and I stand grateful, humbled and even sometimes think it's reason enough not to even have a blog myself.
Yet the snare of the mutual admiration society can be avoided and in fact become a great tool for reflection and an ontological change of perspective.
In so doing, we take our station as observers in the mighty narrative and can then maybe, finally turn away from self and begin to cast our adulation like relentless waves of memorial tribute to the One who rightfully inhabits that center - Jesus Christ and Him alone. In so doing we share perspective with the most enlightened creatures of all.
And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!” And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and worshiped. Revelation 5:13-14
Yes we have a part to play in the eternal narrative, and so in one sense we're not mere spectators. But our part is to love, to pour ourselves out as He showed us the way and to cease hankering for admiration from any other.
"even as i have loved you..." John 13:34
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