WRITE DOWN THE REVELATION

Continue to look with me at this powerful passage from Habakkuk 2. Verse 2 reads,

“Then the LORD replied: Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.”

Let's focus on two applications of this verse;

The Foundation of Writing

                    and

The Purpose of Writing

It stretches metaphor to say the foundation of our writing is from above. But I think you get the point here. When you are in fellowship with God you will see the same things you saw before, but you will see them from the rock of God's perspective. You may write about a dysfunctional home, but you will see it through the weeping eyes of God who loves them. And behind your words will be the knowledge of how it should be. You may write about a good elderly woman but you will not be blind to flaws in even the best person's character.

And notice that God tells us to write to affect the lives of people. We are to make what we write plain. You are writing for people to understand, not to impress them. I have read books that the authors admitted  were written to help them work through a trauma. But those books were only good, or readable for that matter, if truth could be applied to the reader. The purpose of our writing is to make truth known to as many people as possible.

God' truth is the foundation of our writing. And people are the target of our words.

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WRITING FROM THE RAMPART OF PRAYER

Many Christian writers are familiar with Habakkuk 2:1-3. God has used those words to speak to us and encourage us in our writing. In the next few weeks I would like to link those verses with writing prayerfully.

Verse 1 reads,

“I will stand at my watch

   and station myself on the ramparts;

I will look to see what he will say to me,

   and what answer I am to give to this complaint.”

Jesus called us to “Watch and pray.” Most of us rightly think of watching so we can pray. But, have ever prayer walked? If you have not, I recommend it. A good place to start, may be your own neighborhood. Walk around your block taking a little time praying for each home, business, property or building. You will begin to see things to pray for that you had not noticed. Those of you who have done quite a bit of prayer walking know that while you are praying you see things you would never have seen if you were just looking. Praying as you write will open your eyes to perspectives you would never have considered without God’s touch.

I am suggesting something that I’ve not mentioned before. In fact, while I have done it some, I don’t do it as much as I intend. Can you pray while you are writing? Begin with it in your mind that you are telling God the story. This does not necessarily make God your target audience. You might be aiming your words at adults, 19 to 31 who live in . . .  But you have a sense that God is reading over your shoulder. And you continually invite Him to collaborate.

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