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The Perfect Author
By Kay Gibson
God has already written the
Bestseller, so anything we write will be dull in comparison. But if you’re a
writer, here are a few rules to follow (all scriptures are King James Version).
- Breathe
Life into Your Characters
Thus saith God the Lord, he created the heavens, and
stretched them out, he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out
of it; he that giveth breathe unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that
walk therein.
Isaiah
42: 5
God
is the author of life and we are His characters. God made Adam and Eve. If they
had remained perfect and lived their life in the garden, there wouldn’t have
been much of a story. God gave them a free will. They blew it. Our
characters should not be perfect either. Perfect characters are boring. Breathe
life into those characters. Give them problems to bear, and obstacles to
hurdle.
But the very hairs on your head are numbered.
Matthew
10: 30
God
knows us down to the hairs on our heads. Get to know your characters, too. Jot down
not just the color of the eyes and the hair. Write your character’s favorite color,
favorite food, and all his dislikes, too.
Sometimes,
it takes a lot of rewriting. God had to rewrite his plan when Adam and Eve sinned.
Along about Noah’s time, God rewrote again. Keep rewriting until you make every
word fit.
How
many times did God show us how to live? He showed us with the flood. He showed us
with Sodom and Gomorrah. He showed us by becoming flesh and shedding His
blood. Showing is story.
He was in the world, and the world was made by him
and the world knew him not. He came unto his own and his own received him not.
John
1: 10-11
Most
writers get rejected. Jesus was rejected, too. He knew it was part of the plan.
Sorry to tell you, but rejections are part of the writing plan, also.
To
learn to write, we need to read. Read the Bible; because it’s the truth. Read
the kind of books you want to write.
For God is not the author of confusion, but the
author of peace.
1 Corinthians
14: 33
In
our day, life can be hectic for a writer juggling a job, home life, and writing
time. Read the Bible and pray. God will share his peace with you.
Looking into Jesus, the author and finisher of our
faith, who for the job that was set before him endured on the cross, despising
the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews
12: 2
When
an author composes a written piece of work, it is automatically copyrighted
until 70 years after the author’s death. When we accept Jesus as the author and
finisher of our faith, we are granted His copyright of life eternal.
And being made perfect he became the author of
eternal salvation into all them that obey him.
Hebrews
5: 9
We
will never be perfect authors. But if we look to the Perfect Author, the Author
of life, He will help us become accepted authors.
Copyright 2002 Kay Gibson
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