Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Writers are divinely designed to bring God’s love,
healing and transformation to nations and peoples. The place of writers in healing
the nations is significant as writers ordained by God to heal the nations with
their writings are divinely tasked to write to impact humanity positively. The
prophet Jeremiah wrote to instruct the Israelites to obey God, ignore the false
prophets and the lies they told. Jeremiah encouraged the people to go to exile
in Babylon and be fruitful while in exile. He also told them that exile in
Babylon was not permanent as God would set them free and bring them back to
Jerusalem after seventy years. The basis of Jeremiah’s prophecy, documented
informed Daniel’s intercession for the release of Israel from Babylonian
captivity. Please read Daniel Chapter 9 verses 1 to 5, and Jeremiah Chapter 29.
The Apostle Paul, John the Beloved,
Moses and Habakkuk wrote to instruct believers and nations on how to live holy
lives that would ensure peace and development in the nations. John the Beloved
was instructed to write his visions in book for onward transmission to the
seven Churches in Asia. Please read,
Revelation Chapter 1 verses 10 to
20, please note verses 11 and 19; Habakkuk Chapter 2 verses 1 to 3, Luke
Chapter 1 verses 1 to 4, Acts Chapter 1 verses 1 to 20, Jude 3, 1st
Corinthians Chapter 10 verses 1 to 11.
This implies that God uses writing as a tool to fulfill
divine purpose and impact lives. Therefore, writing to impact lives positively
in order to improve and enhance the quality of lives of people to bring about
positive transformation in their lives as well as be a blessing to humanity is
great writing that should be hugely encouraged. This is because the benefits of
such writing are immense. To start with, your writing enriches the mental
processes of your constituency as they engage with the life transforming words,
issues and subjects written about. Their enriched mental processes birth divine
ideas which are again filtered through other quality life transforming books
they mentally engage with or even produce.
Beloved, does your writing inspire, motivate people
to rise up to their divine potentials and heights in life? Does your writing
encourage people out of depression, stir them to challenge whatever limits them
or is trying to put limits on them so that they can be who God created them to
be? Does your writing provide guidance, direction, to guide people in the paths
of righteousness and holy living? Does your writing inspire confidence and
faith in God so that people believe and trust in God and subsequently have
confidence in themselves based on their understanding of God’s love to them;
God’s divine deposits in them to excel and soar?
There is a huge difference between writing to make a
name, to make money and to impact lives. When you write to make a name, your
goal is to make a name, be listed and celebrated as a writer. This is
irrespective of the fact as to whether or not your book made an impact on
humanity; or whether or not it is relevant to holy living, influencing people
positively or not. Your primary concern is write and be known, famous whether
for notoriety or salacious materials or even criminality. You may even write on
good issues but your primary motive for writing is to make a name and not even
money. You just want to be known and be celebrated as a writer.
But writing to make money is a different ball game
altogether. You are not even concerned about making a name. That is the least
of your priorities. Your primary goal is to make money. So your content whether
good or bad, whether it blesses humanity or not is irrelevant. What is
important to you is that your content generates money irrespective of the fact
that it contaminates and poisons the mental processes of people to all forms of
negativity.
Beloved, such writing is not of God and should not
be mentioned among people who fear God. Writing to slander, humiliate people,
gossip people, pollute mental processes with salacious materials, forms of
criminality do not bring about a positive development in society. Such writing
should be discouraged.
Writing which culminates in the deaths of people,
especially innocent people should be discouraged. Jezebel wrote to kill Naboth
– 1st Kings Chapter 21 verses 7 to 16 in order to steal his
vineyard. Similarly, King David wrote to kill Uriah in order to his sin of
adultery with Bathsheba as well as take Bathsheba as wife after the death of
Uriah. Please read 2nd Samuel Chapter 11 verses 14 to 27.
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