November 2017
“Write the Vision!”
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God had a great idea. He wanted to publish a book.
He had the matter but He needed writers, editors,
publishers, promoters, etc. God started planning and
working from the scratch. He looked around for the right
candidate to start and his eyes fell on a little baby. He said,
“Right, I can make this boy write though he will turn out to
be a stammerer. But let me put him through some
training.” It was a very costly training. He had to be
separated from his parents to go to a hostel where he'd be
trained. Thus the child Moses became mighty in “words”
(Acts 7:22). Moses was spared a homicide because he had
to write an important book.
When Moses had lost all faith in himself God said,
“You write.” “Write this on a scroll as something to be
remembered” said God (Ex 17:14a). Thus was birthed the
history of the Bible. From this minuscule start, Moses
went on to write the Pentateuch, that has stood the test of
times, not only as a spiritual masterpiece but also as a
literary jewel.
It is interesting to note that God Himself wrote with
His finger in the original manuscript. “When the Lord
finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him
the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone
inscribed by the finger of God” (Ex 31:18; 32:15,16,32).
That shows how much He was involved in His book.
The Writer: I think the above
introduction
is enough for us to realize the awesomeness of writing for
God. Biblical writers spoke (or wrote) as they were
moved by the Holy Spirit. “Knowing this first, that no
prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for
prophecy never came by the will of man, but HOLY MEN
Dr. Mrs. Lilian Stanley
of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit” (2
Pet 1:20,21).
Religious writing is a prophetic ministry. Herein is
the quintessence - holiness. We can hear the Lord more
clearly if we come to Him with a clean heart. The writer
should not think he can just study the Scriptures and write
something. “To the wicked person, God says: What right
have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your
lips?” (Psa 50:16-20).
It would be naive to think that the writer needs to be
a paragon of virtue. But he should be one who fears the
Lord and loves holiness. A writer may be charged, “You
write, but you don't live up to your writings.” The writer
and others must have in mind that they are human beings
on whom God is still working. The verse in NIV goes like
this. “Prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but
prophets, THOUGH HUMAN, spoke from God as they
were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” Neither Moses nor
David nor Paul - the three prolific writers of the Bible
were perfect. So let us be encouraged. As we walk along
the path of perfection we keep writing.
Writing is a prophetic ministry and should not be
taken lightly. The writer must be spiritually sensitive to
know the mind of the Lord. His heart must be close
enough to God's heart to understand its beatings. Moses
was in touch with God, not through facebook but face to
face. Then the writer must be able to put it in black and
white so that God's heart and mind will be made plain to
people. The writer is literally a pen in God's hand. God's
ideas must flow from Him to the paper through the writer.
This is what we see in the case of Habbakuk. Israel
was being whipped by the barbaric Babylonians and
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