The Storied Life
Consider the possibility that God’s call on his people isn’t always an immediate promotion to a different position but a faithful pursuit of a different life. Perhaps “calling” is less about doing and more about the person you’re becoming while you’re “doing.”
Jared C. Wilson • The Storied Life
God’s call is sanctification to become more like Jesus and he uses me to do cool stuff along the way.
However the Lord has gifted you, whatever tools you have at your disposal, steward them toward the impression of awe, the air of redemption, a foretaste of glory. Do not write in such a way as to make your name great, but because his name is. You don’t have to write explicitly Christian material for this to be true. You simply have to write as an e
... See moreJared C. Wilson • The Storied Life
This. I struggle so much with this. I want to write. I want to write for Him. I want to make His name great. I feel so incompetent, like I’m always going to say the wrong thing. Like no matter what I write, I will fail. It is so intimidating. So, I don’t. Then I feel guilty.
You have to want to help people. The main purpose of publishing, for the Christian writer, has to be glorifying God by serving his church in some way.