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The Lord
said... Write
by Commissioner
Wesley Harris
In
the
book of Habakkuk it says, “The Lord…said, write…”
(Habakkuk
2.2)
Like us, perhaps,
the prophet was perplexed by the extent of evil in the world.
Why did God allow wicked people to prosper?
If punishment was to come at the hands of the
threatening Babylonians that would not make sense for if
anything they were more wicked than the prophet’s fellow Jews!
So what should be said or done?
There was no
quick or easy answer to the problem of evil but the prophet
could be quietly assured that God in his good time would do
what was right and the immediate task was to write this
conviction clearly so that others might share the vision.
I believe that a
similar command comes to many believers in these days. Devil
possessed pens may be employed to fill some pages of the
secular press and the power of the written word may be greater
than ever before but so is the need for those who will write
for righteousness and truth.
Habakkuk said
that he would stand at the watch and station himself on the
ramparts and see what God would say to him.
And the Lord said, “Write!” In the same way some who
are ‘tuned in’ to what God has to say to them may also be led
to write in order to spread the good news of the gospel.
When I feel led
to encourage some people to take up their pens in this way
they say that they
are not sufficiently gifted and I urge them to put their
modesty on the altar and perhaps undertake study to equip
themselves for a writing ministry.
For many people
the biggest difficulty about writing is getting started. ‘Some
time’ so easily becomes ‘no time’ – and I speak from
experience! But
the Lord is calling for more writers, people who could be word
merchants for Jesus and help to extend his glorious kingdom.
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