Then the LORD replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.” Habakkuk 2:2
“We are like a pencil with which God writes the texts He wants said in the hearts of men.”
Irma Dulce Lopes Pontes (1914-1992). A contemporary to the service of Mother Teresa (1910-1997) in India, we find Irma ministering in Brazil.
Mother Teresa is credited for saying, “I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.” Today’s post is attributed to Irma. I like it because of the writing part. Someone asked me recently why I have written every day for 16 years. Yes, I am celebrating 16 year of Daily Meditations this week.
And why I have written or contributed to 17 books and counting. I often reply “I don’t write for money, I write for God. I can’t not write. It’s what he made me to do.” If Teresa and Irma are two pencils, then I am a keyboard, but not anywhere near the league of saint alongside those two ladies.
What has God made you to do? What are you? Reply to this note with a word like a “pencil” or a “keyboard.”
For example, if your word is “shovel” put it in the form of a prayer like this: “I am a little shovel in the hand of a gardening God who who helps people bear much fruit.” Let’s see ourselves as instruments or tools in the hands of God making music, writing words, or doing other good things to serve people in the name of Jesus.
And I do appreciate your prayers as my focus now centers on speaking in podcast and preaching settings and doing major events to activate a task force to form a peer accountability group like ECFA in USA to serve Brazil. Thanks.