The idol of rightness

here’s a problem for me as a blogger and why I need to be careful online.

My righteousness can only be by faith in Jesus Christ because he is my savior – not my effort, not my performance and not even my intellect or ideas.
In other words I am ok only because of grace – i am a sinner saved by grace. any other basis for my righteousness and my acceptance will be false and will fail.
Now here’s my question, as much as i can can theorise this gospel , to what extent is it actually realised when it comes to something like blogging.

I think that on more occasions than I can remember, I have thought – maybe sub-consciously – that my worth and acceptance and status is bound up in what people think of my opinion about matters of truth.

Now you are probably thinking, truth matters. It does I assure you. But why does it matter to you?

You see, doctrinal Pharisees make an idol out of truth, in that they can articulate the doctrine of justification by faith and salvation in christ alone, yet in reality they operate with another functional saviour. They trust in the rightness of their beliefs.
Tim keller suggests that these are the people who are prone to mocking and scoffing. Because their identity and worth is bound up in the rightness of their ideas, they tend to be dogmatic, closed in mind and is always disrespectful of opponents. Their disdainfulness comes from their false sense of superiority. They are often reformed and evangelical like me, and say they are justified by faith in christ but their real trust and assurance – though subtle – Is in themselves, and in the righteousness of
their own ideas. It’s an idol because they love their doctrine about God more than God himself.

Here lies the danger, because the internet has the potential to breed scofffers and mockers, because let’s face it – your traffic increases with scoffing, disdain, sarcasm, mockery and bombastic quips.

so some strategies to guard my heart
1. Believe the gospel and keep praying that it is realised functionally when it comes to others acceptance and opinion
2. Make a practice of caring more for God and his glory and less for my place, status, worth and identity apart from him and his gospel.
3. Search my motive before I post, ensuring that I am being slow to scoff and quick to bless.
4. Sit it in the drafts and wait a while
5. Allow the word of grace to identify, expose and demolish the idols of my heart.