Hello Friends,
Writing has been on my mind almost daily. I think about all of the things I can write about and how they may help people who come across my blog. Yet, somehow, I seem to talk myself out of it. Coming up with excuses as to why I shouldn’t write: “I’m too busy”, “I’m tired”, “No one is going to read it”, “No one will want to read my thoughts”, etc., etc. However, I can’t seem to get it off of my mind. I find the more I ignore the desire, the busier my mind becomes. My brain is flooded with a tidal wave of ideas, reflecting on ways I can share my thoughts with the world.
Then, something miraculous happened. God spoke to me, reminding me that the desire to write has been placed in my heart for a reason. While checking my email, I ran across a scripture from Rick Warren that read, “The Lord gave me this answer: ‘Write down clearly on tablets what I reveal to you, so that it can be read at a glance.’” Habakkuk 2:2 (GNT). It felt as though God was sitting beside me and whispered in my ear, “Write down clearly on tablets what I reveal to you…”. Some may describe it as a light-bulb moment, but I describe it as a clear message from Jesus to share the revelations that He has been giving me with the world. The lessons I learn aren’t for me to gate-keep, but to help those on this side of heaven who are going through what I have been or are currently going through with my gift of writing.
So of course, I had to dig deeper into Scripture. Hearing God’s voice so clearly is such an intimate delicacy. The more I hear it, the more I yearn to be in His presence. It is a safe and loving place to be in. As I’m sitting here, I am trying to figure out something to compare it to, but there is nothing on earth that would equate to sitting in the presence of the Lord. Understanding one’s purpose in life is what every human strives for. Some are fortunate enough to have a clear understanding of what their purpose is and how to use it. Some have to search, trial and error, to determine a reason to wake up every day and get through life. So when that time comes when our purpose has been revealed, it is like seeing the face of a beautiful bride after her veil has been removed for all the world to see.
“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.”
1 Peter 4:10-11
I’ve known for over half my life that my purpose was to help people. The question of helping people has left me feeling lost. I have attempted so many avenues of what I thought that help should look like. And what I thought was failure may have been me leaving a residual footprint of inspiration and love that resembles the love of Christ. That is my hope anyway. But writing… writing has always been my first love and now I know the purpose of that love.
Thank you for reading my thoughts. I pray that God reveals your path in life and gives you the strength to follow through. I love you all.
Healing with Harotian 