What To Write and Say When You Do Not Know What To Write and Say

There can be times when you are asked to speak and you know not what to say! You know you have to write and somehow your fingers just will not function and you know the trouble is the mind and brain!That can become a daunting moment when speaking is part of your job and calling, but it happens.

Isaiah, a mighty prophet of God, filled with the Spirit of God, experienced such days. On one occasion when God told him to cry out, he asked, "What shall I cry?" He had been raised up to speak to the nation of Israel but he was uncertain as to what he should proclaim to the people. It was if he knew he had to get it right. His task and role was exceedingly important.

Well, he was honest. As a result, words just flooded into him and flowed from him. But what a searing and perceptive word he was given.

Tell the people that all men are like grass. Their fame and glory is comparatively temporary. They are like the flowers in a Judean field on a hot summer's day. They wither, fade away and quickly disappear.

People come and go, and Isaiah spells that out clearly, before announcing that the word of our God stands for ever. No matter where you read in the Bible - even in darkest of passages a bright shaft of light suddenly breaks through and we observe that time and time through the prophecy of Isaiah.

It is quite amazing to examine how the Word of God has been attacked and maligned from the very beginning, starting in the Garden of Eden. There is an enemy of God who does not want the Word of God to become known, believed and obeyed.

Over these past 150 years the pace of this onslaught has steadily increased, sometimes under the deceptive guise of academic scholarship. How anyone came to accept and swallow the thought that evolution might be true always amazes me. This is a topic I have studied closely for over twenty years and there is not one scrap of evidence anywhere to give it support.

Isaiah is told to go proclaim this good news to Zion and to Jerusalem.

Lift up your voice. Make sure you are heard. Do not be afraid to shout it out. Tell the whole nation that the living sovereign God is about to move and act.

There were those who thought that God had disregarded their cause and overlooked their prayers. Do you ever feel that God has not heard your cries and prayers? He has and He will answer.

God was about to shepherd and escort His people safely back to Jerusalem, and if He happened to see a little one stumbling along the way He would stoop to lift that fragile vulnerable person and hold him close to His heart.

Here are some magnificent truths which can put boldness, courage, strength and comfort, into the most tender of bodies.

Sandy Shaw