21-Day Devotional for Christian WritersExemplo

Writers are rather creative people. Our minds never stop moving or thinking of ideas for our work, whether it’s for a movie, an article, or a book. The Psalmist understood this. He talks about his ‘heart being stirred by a noble theme.’ But he goes one further by reminding us that our gift is from and for God (‘…I recite my verses for the king’). The writer’s life can be lonely. Isolated for hours at a time, with only the flickering computer screen for company, the outside world rarely gets a look in. It is also a life that demands the utmost dedication to the craft, which is why the Psalmist warning is so apt; it reminds us to stay focused on God. My tongue is the pen of a skilful writer. This verse is a reminder to writers that it is not only the words that we write that have power; the words that we speak also have power. This is important because we seem to spend a lot of our time caught up in self-doubt and (unreasonably) comparing ourselves to others. However, when you remember and confess out loud to yourself that ‘my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer,’ you are reminded of Whose you are, of Who called you to be a writer and can align your priorities right (glorify God in your writing). Reflect on this while meditating on the above Scriptures.