Draw A Line In The Sand, But Never Choose A Side

When I write, I never want to write without God. I have not written a single word in my new book in about 3 weeks. As soon as I noticed I was depending on my own natural abilities, I packed my notes up and walked away. It wasn't worth writing, if I reached a place where I was doing it in my own will-power, without God's guidance and presence.

This morning, I was awakened out of my sleep around 3 a.m. Just lying there, in my thoughts of Him. At some point, I started to think about the content of my new book. The weightiness of the subject matter and all the complexities that comes with it. The risks that I am taking by writing on such a subject matter, due to the political intensity concerning such matter.

For me, this book will draw the sand in the line that I cannot totter back and forth with. Most Christians have a one-sided view on the matter with very little or no sensitivity to the human nature. A lack of tolerance and love. While the LGBT community don't want to own up to the accountability of their own sinful actions, by tapering their sin with such ideologies as I was born this way.

And God has smacked little old me, right in the middle of this mess, and instructs me to draw a line in the sand, and to never choose a side. Speak from His heart. Teach His ways. Display His love, grace and mercy. But trample down on everything, on both sides of the line that is not of Him.

That's a lot to carry. Writing this book has made it clearer to me, what it must have been like for Christ, during the hours when he was beaten, skin ripped apart, flesh pierced in order to be hung on a cross. To spend the last hours of his life in unbelievable pain for the sake of imperfect, self-centered, selfish people like me, like you. He risks it all. Gave up everything, just so we will have an opportunity to gain any and everything.

I'm ready to write. I feel His presence.