Just another labourer!
The Christian creative journey has its fair share of potholes and road blocks. When my poor head is full of doubts and fears, then I know I need to put on my labourer’s mind.
Let me explain:
Back in the day, I worked as a general labourer on building sites. The foremen were generally gruff and demanding. If they told you to move a pile of bricks from one end of the site to another, then that is what you did without question, especially if you were hoping to receive your wages at the end of the day.
In recent days I have been drawn towards writing essays on spiritual matters. Like most folk who step out to express themselves creatively, I am often filled with deep anguish, asking myself the usual stock questions such as: ‘am I called to write’; ‘am I good enough to write’, ‘are there not much better writers around than me’, and perhaps most importantly, ‘will anyone ever read anything I write!?’
This anguish can paralyse me, sapping me of any glimmer of self-confidence I might have harboured in my soul and I know that many others are inhibited in the same way.
I find the answer is to remind myself of a ‘labourer’s mind’.
God has asked me to write and I will do so until He tells me otherwise. If He asks me to place my scribblings somewhere where others may read, admire, scoff, ridicule or appreciate them, then so be it. I am, at the end of the day, just a labourer, plying my trade and doing what I am told.
When I approach writing from this point of view then my anguish and inhibitions melt away. I am just a labourer, shoveling words and phrases here and there, doing what I have been told to do, and hoping to receive an honest wage from my Lord on the day that he returns.
Colossians 1:29 ‘To this end I labour, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me.’
A ‘labourer’s mind’ brings great freedom indeed!
My previous posts:
- Revelation 22:20 Our cherished hope
There will be a unity of heart when everyone calls out for his glorious return. There will be a spirit of grace upon God’s people that will bring us all together in unity and brotherhood. - Revelation 22:16 God’s Word
No-one has a monopoly on the truths of this magnificent book, and we will all have our struggles and misunderstandings on our journey, but God is demanding that we treat Revelation with the utmost respect that it deserves. The truths that were sealed in Daniel’s time will be opened up according to God’s direction. This will need purified and refined souls to understand and teach, in the midst of immense confusion and mistruths. Please pray for those who are called to understand and teach. - Revelation 22:11 In or Out…
Even at this late stage, a reference to the polarity of mankind, between the righteous and the unrighteous. One thinks of Noah’s Ark, and the obedient who were safe inside and those who chose to ignore Noah’s call for righteousness and stayed outside. - Revelation 22:7 The time is near indeed
Having taken us to the very highest of heights, surveying the Holy City that is beautiful beyond words, John brings us back to our ordinary lives, waiting with a cherished expectation for our Lord to return and keeping the words of this prophecy, with all its encouragements, admonishments and warnings. - Revelation 22:3 No longer any curse
Peter praised his contemporaries for their faith in Christ Jesus although they had never met him in real life and had only heard of him through Peter. Imagine though, what it will feel like, approaching the throne and gazing into the eyes of the Divine, to reach out and touch the very hem of his garment. It will be beyond belief…
Revelation 34 