Happy New Year everyone.
It is my earnest prayer that this year, we will come to know God, and his
power, in a more intimate way. I pray that the Spirit and life behind the Word
and the Spirit of prayer and intercession will move us greatly this year.
There might be the
temptation for a lot of us to look back at the year that has just ended and
conclude that there is nothing to be grateful for. There were probably quite a
lot of things we were believing God for (or one important thing) and we didn’t
get to see it and so some of us are probably disappointed. You’re not alone. I
also thought last year was the year in which I would get a literary agent who
would agree to represent me and would offer me a representation contract (is
that what they are called?). I thought that after a little while, the major
Christian publishing houses would be breaking down my door in order to get my
signature on a publishing contract. Did any of that happen? No. I wrote a lot
of book proposals and I got a lot of rejection letters. There were even more
literary agents who didn’t even bother replying so all I got was silence. Am I
disappointed? Yes. Am I giving up? No. Why? Because I know what I believe about
what God has said to me. What the whole thing has taught me is patience.
The Bible says in
Ecclesiastes chapter 9, verse 4 that “a living dog is better than a dead lion.”
As long as there is breath in our lungs, we should live in hope. Especially if
we believe that we know what God has said about the particular situation we are
trusting him for. I have told myself that I am going to send a book proposal to
every literary agent under the sun who represents Christian writers until I
find one who will represent me. I believe that I have a good story (at least
one of the agents has told me she likes certain aspects of it. I have been
waiting for word from her superior) so I believe that there must be someone out
there who will like it and will be ready to represent me. And I believe this is
the year.
So if you are thinking of
quitting, thinking of giving up, let it not be today my friends. We need to
keep on going because tomorrow just might be the day. We should have it always
in our thoughts that God has our best interests at heart. We might not always
get the things we want but he will give us the things we need. And as the
Kutless song says, Even If we don’t get the things we think we should have, we
should still praise and worship Him because he is worthy. Let’s stick close to
Him this year. I believe there are a lot things He wants to say to us. We
should not let our circumstances or situations drown out his voice.
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