One of my favorite verses in the
Bible is "For in him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your
own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’ {Acts 17:28} The context
of this verse is the apostle Paul’s speech to the people of Athens regarding
their worship of many gods, including the ‘Unknown God.’ It is this unknown God
that Paul seeks to introduce them to.
It is only by knowing the one true
God that we can in all fullness experience abundant life and pass it on to
others. “I came that you might have Life. And to have it abundantly.” {John
10:10} The word ‘enthusiasm’ comes from two Greek words, en and theos. Theos is
the Greek word for God. 'enthusiasm' literally then means, ‘full of God’ or ‘God
within.’ I find that profound. For me, this means that without God, I can’t be
truly enthusiastic in anything! I can have a shadow of it perhaps, as we are all
Gods creation, but I cannot have true enthusiasm, just as the people of Athens had no true understanding of the Unknown
God, but instead worshipped and served empty, manmade gods of stone.
In my writing, I feel this verse
keenly. It is in God that my writing lives and moves and it is in God that I
can have true inspiration and enthusiasm to share the words that He gives me.
Even in writing a non-christian based article, I can still seek for my writing
to honor Him and believe that He ministers in any way that He sees fit through
it.
We truly are God’s offspring. It is
an amazing thought that a part of God’s ingenuity and creativity abides in us
and our words.
We don’t have to know everything
about writing as we often think we do, and sometimes those things can just end
up being our searching out other gods and a means to not have to depend on and
get to know how God wants to truly move uniquely through us. I don’t know where my
writing journey will lead me in the future but I do know that God, who was once
described by Paul as the Unknown God, wants to be known by me and is the one
who leads me. That is more than enough for me.
