To Write or Not To Write

To write or not to write.  That was the question this morning.  Not that I didn't want to, I always want to.  It's in my blood.  I just didn't know what I would write about.  To be honest I still don't know.  Usually ideas will come to me and I'll have a chat with God about them and tuck them away in my head and by the time I sit down at the keyboard in the morning, I have some sense of where God is leading me and what I'm going to say.  Not true today.

Several things came to mind yesterday and last night but nothing ever seemed to come together right.  I thought about places I had been and things that had been going on around me the last few days and tried to make a spiritual connection to something but for the life of me I couldn't do it.  It was like I hit a brick wall.  You've heard of writer's block?  I think I just experienced it.  I was awake at 4:30 this morning trying to figure out what I was going to write, but I couldn't put two sensible thoughts together for anything in the world.  So for a brief moment I thought about skipping out and not writing at all this morning.  But that wasn't what I wanted to do.  And it obviously wasn't what God wanted me to do either, because finally He told me, "You don't have to know what you're writing, just write."  So here I am.

You know its really a shame we're not like that in more areas of our lives.  We think we have to know all the answers ahead of time.  We want the who, what, where, when and why before we agree to anything.  We want all the answers about everything going on in our lives.  Yes, I'll admit, it would help a great deal if I knew what I was going to write before I sat down at the keyboard, but this morning I didn't.  And as it turns out - that's okay.  God knew.  He knew the words and thoughts that needed to come out even if I didn't know. 

What a great reminder that He's in charge.  Even when we don't have the details we think we need, He has them.  Truth is, my thoughts have become clearer and clearer with each sentence.  Even when I had no clue what I was going to say, its suddenly one of the easiest blog posts I've submitted.  I didn't know where this was going or even what the subject was going to be, but God knew. You may not have all the answers either, but you can know the One who does.

 "'For I know the plans I have for you,'" declares the LORD..."
  ~ Jeremiah 29:11

"When my spirit grows faint within me, it is you who watch over my way..."  ~ Psalm 142:3 

"When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee..."  ~ Jonah 2:7