What Writer's Block Teaches Us

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NOTE 1: In the past, I wrote a story illustrating writer's block. Today, I'll be writing a point that God teaches through writer's block.

God, through writer's block, teaches the writer that he can't write by his own power (because he has none).

A writer may think: "Today, by my ability, I will write [insert work here]!" However, when he begins, he is immediately at a loss for words.

What does the writer learn here? He learns that he can't conjure up the words on his own. He learns that he is a broken cistern that can hold no water (Jeremiah 2:13). He learns that he has no writing ability of his own, but that all his skill comes from an outside source.

And what is that outside source? The God of the Bible, the only true God. The Biblical God is the True Fountain from which writing-skill flows.

And how can one have this God as his Fountain? By looking to Him in faith, or trust (John 3:14-16; 2 Corinthians 3:18). For this faith purifies the heart (Acts 15:9), and the heart is the source of speech (Luke 6:45). And what is literature but written speech?

NOTE 2: My thinking here on how the Christian's speech is conformed to God's speech is inspired by Tim Conway's sermons "Learn from Christ’s Speech and How He Spoke" (Learn from Christ's Speech and How He Spoke - Tim Conway - I'll Be Honest (illbehonest.com)) and "Speaking Like No Other" (Speaking Like No Other - Tim Conway (Ephesians 4:29) (illbehonest.com))