Over the past few weeks writing has been tough. I don’t think this is anything more than the natural ebb and flow of the writer’s life—there are moments where the words come easily and moments where they seem locked inside. Recently, they have seem locked within my mind, so even though I’ve got ideas, it has been tough to express them with clarity and insight. This has prompted me to consider why it is that I love to write and why it is that you may benefit from trying your hand at writing as well.
It puts your gifts and talents to use. God distributes different gifts and talents to different people and does so with the expectation that both will be used for the good of others and the glory of God. (Let’s distinguish talents as those skills that seem to be innate and are then fostered through practice and gifts as the spiritual gifts God distributes to his people.) The best writing seems to come from those who have developed their talent in writing and then fostered the gift of teaching. Put together, they are a valuable means of serving other believers. But how can you
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