Who are your writing to?
It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent Theophilus. Luke 1:3
You can write! We all can. I have been a proponent of writing for the past several years. I encourage people to journal to capture the things in your heart and in your thoughts. Journaling is so simple, just write scriptures that you are meditating and want to remember or the impressions you get during your quiet time. Write your story and the many wonderful ways you see God moving in your life. Write a note or letter to someone you care about or randomly think of. Write a text message to let someone know you are praying for them. You can even write a social media post to tell the world there is hope.
Writing helps not only the people you are writing to, but it also is for you. Writing things out reinforces them in your thoughts and also in your heart. Writing also gives clarity and helps you organize ideas and plans. Writing to others can inspire and motivate them to take a next step in life and writing your testimony can help you be ready to share it at any moment.
Today we are starting in the book of Luke. Luke was a physician, so he is believed to be meticulous and highly accurate in his writing accounts. He is also the only man not of the Hebrew people that wrote books in the bible, so his writing brings a different perspective than the other gospel writers.
He started out writing to Theophilus because he wanted to reinforce the things that were taught him to let Theophilus know they were true. He said a lot of people have written things about Jesus and have been passed along from person to person, but Luke’s account was an eyewitness record from those who spent time with Jesus. His encouragement was for Theophilus, but it is also for us. Luke’s writing 2000 years ago is impacting us still today all these years later.
That brings me to my final point. Your writing will live on after you. You have the opportunity today to impact the generations of tomorrow. So start writing today at least in a journal so that your words will continue to speak the love of God long after you have left this world.
Today I want to encourage you to write! Write daily scriptures and thoughts. Write letter and books to help others get up when they fall down. Write notes and text to tell people you love them and they are doing a great work no matter how small it may seem. Impact the world around you for years to come by writing what is on your heart today.
Today’s scripture reading: Luke 1:1-4
1 Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us,
2 just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us,
3 it seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent Theophilus,
4 that you may know the certainty of those things in which you were instructed.
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