Imagine a feather drifting down over a busy metropolis like Hong Kong. It will probably fall unnoticed to the ground and be trodden underfoot, ruined and despised, or blown into some obscure corner to be hidden away and forever ignored. Unless someone snatches it up and values it, it will make no difference to the world it wafts into. But imagine someone takes it and fashions it into a quill to write down stories and messages inspired by God. Then it will be used to make an impact. The impact is in the writing, not the feather itself, but the feather is instrumental in the process. Without the feather the writing cannot take place.
Many writers are like the feather – soft and gentle – wired by God for the purpose of sitting alone quietly writing his inspired messages. They are not high profile personalities, the kind who command attention by their extrovert nature. In person they are likely to be overlooked and the gold invested in them to remain undiscovered and un-mined – discounted as ones who have nothing to say because they are quietly packaged. Like the feather they will most likely be despised and ignored, never having impact in and of themselves to bring change to anything.
Now consider Harriet Beecher Stowe, the daughter of a Connecticut parson, who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and through it changed a nation. It is rumoured that Abraham Lincoln said to her,
"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war." He was of course referring to the American Civil War, which was largely sparked by the dissension between the north and south over the issue of slavery. It was also said of her that her book made a far bigger impact than a thousand sermons preached from the pulpit. Did she make an impact? She sure did!
High profile celebrity speakers certainly being change, especially now we have You tube and a thousand other means to disseminate the spoken word, but writers, I want to tell you that your books and writings can go where you could never go and touch the hearts of people you will never meet, deeply impacting them for the kingdom of God.
I once had a vision of the Lord Jesus introducing me in heaven to a whole host of people who had gotten there through reading Blood and Roses. (That alone should encourage you to buy a copy for your friends and family members! It certainly encourages me to keep on writing!)
Let me encourage you to allow the hand of God to take hold of you, yield to the sharpening of the quill and embrace the aloneness of the writing process, so that God can inspire you with His words, that will deeply touch the heart of readers and bring change, even to nations!
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