God is ridiculous. Here’s 1 million reasons why.

I struggle with my ego. I feel like hourly I have a mixed martial arts cage fight with it. I am constantly trying to suppress it or wrestle it down to size since it seems as big as the state of Minnesota. But sometimes, in my desire to not be arrogant, I pendulum swing too far to the other side and end up having a false sense of humility. I trade my prideful arrogance for prideful humility. Instead of saying, “Look how great I am,” I say, “Look how average I am.” But today, I heard a sermon that convicted me about how I am living:

If I want a greater expression of God, I cannot sit up with my lips glued together with an aloof expression on my face and expect to get a mighty move of God. I want you to understand that to receive what God has for you, you may have to break out of your comfort zone. God did not promise to fit into your training and your background and your personality. God did not promise to fit into your little idiosyncrasies. God did not promise to be housed in any man’s culture or philosophy. God is too big to be held down to the principles of your age or your time. God says I know what I want and I like what I want and I want somebody to praise me.

I don’t usually mention traffic statistics about Stuff Christians Like. I don’t do it because it feels like it’s me trying to get you to believe that I matter, that I’m important or cool or smart or a million other things. And I confess that is something I honestly struggle with. But God is doing some crazy stuff with this community, with me and with you, and I felt compelled to at least one time, publicly praise what He’s doing. To be honest with you and say, “wow.” To acknowledge with some numbers that this is not about Jon Acuff. This is about God and this is ridiculous.

Yesterday, since officially going live on March 21st of this year, Stuff Christians Like recorded its 1,000,000th page view. Not hits, page views. Over one million pages have been viewed on this site by more than 140,000 unique people in 165 countries (85% of the countries in the world) in about 15 weeks time. We’re on the verge of having a top 2,000 ranking on Technorati, which means out of 112 million sites, this one is number 2,000 as far as popularity.

This will probably be the last time I mention traffic stats as doing so honestly makes me feel like a sweaty egomaniac. And I am sorry if it felt that way to you too. That was not my intent. Today I wanted to say thanks God. Today I wanted to say I praise you God. For letting me and a lot of other people connect with you in a new way. Whether four more people engage with the site or four million more, your love for all of us does not change. I pray you’ll keep getting me out of the way and keep doing whatever it is you’re doing.

Which by the way, is ridiculous.