Writer's Block

Well, I've been struck with a particularly bad case of writer's block.  It reminds me that I'm not perfect, that I need to depend on God for my content, not on my brain, which has apparently gone back to bed.

 That said, I'm glad God doesn't get writer's block.  I mean, He's the Author of Creation and of our Salvation.  What if He one day sat staring at the little spinning ball we call Earth and wondered how He was going to write our tomorrow?  I can't really imagine it at all.

Here's the thing: God has worked everything out from the beginning...from before the beginning.  God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation (2 Thes 2:13).  He knew every detail of your life before you were born.  He has guided your life from the start.  He doesn't get writer's block because He is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent--He is all-knowing, all-powerful, and present everywhere and always. 

Did you catch that?  He chose you before the beginning of time. Can you fathom what that means?  I can't!  But I know the results: When God chooses you, He calls you to believe in Him.  In fact, you cannot believe in Him unless He opens your eyes by choosing you.  Just like this blog post could not ask to be written, you could not ask to be chosen.  It is something the Author decides.  This blog post could not even have the desire to be posted until I had written it; you could not even have the desire to be saved until God chose you.

What might be the most comforting thought in the world is this: God chose me, so I believe; it is not because I believe that God chose me.

If that is a clear as mud, read through this quote from Charles Spurgeon: 

"I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite certain that, if God had not chosen me, I should never have chosen Him; and I am sure He chose me before I was born, or else He never would have chosen me afterwards."

 Hopefully you're starting to understand a little about how unspeakably marvelous it is that we had nothing to do with our salvation and that God had everything to do with it.  Like dead Lazarus, we cannot respond to God's call until He brings us to life. 

So, if you are ever doubting your salvation or worrying about your situation, remember: God doesn't get writer's block.  You are reading the book one page at a time.  God wrote the book before the beginning of creation, but He is reading it right alongside you.  He knows the ending, and He is going to make it glorious.