Writing is not so much a talent for eloquence, as it is a willingness to share a part of yourself. Each line and passage represents a part of you that others might never discover if you choose to keep it hidden. Beliefs, emotions, experiences; all of these are put on display as your work is read. There is a real sense of vulnerability in this display. The acceptance or rejection that it is met with, in some degree, would be a direct reflection of its author.
So, writers are a group that seek motivation. A reason to display themselves and put their own feelings at risk. There has to be something that makes it worth it.
I have been blessed with a marvelous reason to share my writings with others. I am saved. Jesus Christ has changed my life and saved my soul. As soon as He came into my heart, things were different. Every aspect of my life was affected. I loved people that I once hated. I felt peace where I once felt despair. The joy of my life, suddenly became deeper than material wealth or physical health. I found beauty in things that I could not see before. I discovered a relationship with my Creator that I could not have comprehended just one day earlier. All of these changes are too wonderful for me! Even today, I cannot fully appreciate the magnitude of the Gift I've been given.
Yet, there is a pain that comes with salvation. A heartache that I could not have known before I came to Christ. Every day I see people all around me that have not received this Gift. Salvation is offered to every man, but so many reject it. I have witnessed some turn Jesus away time after time. My heart wants to cry out to them, "Why be lost when you can be saved?" "Why condemn your soul to hell when Jesus offers you Heaven?"
That is the part of me that you can find in my writing. The part that truly wants each one of us to share the joy of Heaven and be free from the bondage of sin and death. God is "not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (II Peter 3:9). The only ones doomed to hell are the Devil and his angels, but we have the opportunity to escape this fate. Jesus will save those of us that cling to His promise of eternal life.
By grace, I was shown that I had to repent of my sins. Be determined to change my life, in order to glorify God in my living. Acknowledge that I was a sinner and had nothing to offer God in payment for the precious gift of Jesus Christ. Recognize that no good deed could make me worthy of salvation and confess with all my heart that only the life, death, and glorious resurrection of Jesus Christ could provide the way for me to be saved.
I want so much to share that with others! In this fact I find my motivation for writing. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. I am not the first to write of His goodness and I won't be the last. There are people that wrote before me, whose words helped me to seek for God. I want that to be my testimony. I just want to touch someone for Jesus. |
