| May 23,
2006
Writing to God
Luke 1: 1-4; 1Many have undertaken to draw up
an account of the things that have been fulfilled[a]
among us, 2just as they were handed down to us by
those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants
of the word. 3Therefore, since I myself have carefully
investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed
good also to me to write an orderly account for you,
most excellent Theophilus, 4so that you may know the
certainty of the things you have been taught. ,
-NIV
Now that I have started doing this online and daily,
as opposed to only weekly and only for a few friends,
I have learned a few things.
First of all writing every day is harder than writing
every week. Many times when I have gone to seminars
or other Christian conferences they talk about doing
the fundamentals and one of them is always journaling.
I had thought that was like a diary and so I had shied
away from it. It was; too girlie, too impersonal,
and just not my style. Also I had a hard enough time
reading and thinking on the word an hour or so each
day not to mention prayer time and ministry who had
the time to actually write something in a journal
that no one would ever read anyway. In Spiritual
Disciplines for the Christian Life By Donald
S. Whitney, one of the first books I read as a young
Christian and one that I still read at least once
a year, it is considered one of the most important
Disciplines. But I had been ignoring if for over nine
years now. I think I begin to understand now. As we
discipline ourselves for various matters, even those
that have nothing to do with our present circumstances,
God is able to work in us to free us from the destructive
habits we are already into. The story of the cast
out demon who roams about and then comes back home
to roost with seven new demons is just one example
of reasons why we need to fill our lives with Gods
Discipline.
Without the “necessity” of writing every
day I do not think the work that God is doing in other
parts of my life would be happening. Journaling is
Biblically inspired -the entire book of Acts was basically
Luke’s Journal of what happened to the early
Christians- and is something everybody should look
into adding to their daily walk with God.
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