Thank God for Cookies

Published on July 21, 2008 by The Joe Koski

I'd like to write something deep. Something awesome.  Something amazing.  I just read a review of a novel that is about a werewolf in LA, or something, and immediately I could not help but think, “Man, I wish I had written that!  That sounds awesome!”

Maybe I'll write a story about a dinosaur…in…um, Paris.

No, no, that would be lame.

At this point, I don't have a goal of what to write about. I just write for fun, because it's fun. I'd like to find something, however. A project.  I think it would be fun to have something to dive into.

Maybe a bear who DJs in English pubs?
Maybe a robot who drives an ice cream truck?
Maybe a hit man with a killer moustache?

I don't know.  Nothing good comes to mind.

I'll tell you what, though; I did at one point recently change my view of it all. Before, I felt like I was going to do something that was just fun. It did not have to be about God or anything. I just didn't want to capitalize on being a Christian or a Pastor, and just wanted to write something for me. So I tried a few times to some genuinely horrible results.

Then, a month or two ago, I really realized something…namely that my way of thinking was dumb. Everything I do, artistic or otherwise, is about God.  Thus, everything I write, even if it is about a vampire frog that works the night shift at Wal-Mart, is going to be colored and shaped by God no matter what. Because He is a part of all I do. His Word shapes everything I believe. My end goal should be to glorify God in everything, overtly or otherwise.

So now I'm open to it. I have thought about writing a devotional, about short stories, some kind of comic book….but who knows? I may never write anything at all, and that is okay.

It's fun to pretend though, and to play around with it. And if God ever puts something on my heart to really dive into, well, I'm down for it. But I'll have to wait for Him; I don't want to run a head of His plans for me anymore.

A good verse about this whole thing is Eph. 2:10. God created me a certain way with the talents and gifts that I have, and He has planned out ways for me to do good works with them. I'm just going to follow Him and see what happens.

Here is the verse:
"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

P.S.  All that said-what talents and gifts has God blessed you with?  How are you willing to give them over to Him?  What can He do with your life once you do?