I know why I pick up this pen usually twice a day, but I rarely know more than a part of the first line or the opening Scripture verse when I begin to write.
Some might call that being unprepared, I call it be available for His service, an empty vessel waiting to be filled.
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2nd Tim. 2:15)
All that is required, and could honestly be called requested of us by our Father in heaven, is to be available, but to a degree there is a caveat, certain stipulations must be made and met before we can be used fully.
If we do not study His Word, and here I will also add contemplate, for that is in part what is means to hide His Word in our hearts, then we will not be able to show ourselves approved, we will not be able to rightly divide His truths, and we will sooner or later find ourselves ashamed.
This is why I have both great fear and no fear whatsoever when I pick up my pen and notepad, for I know I am willing to be used, but I never feel as if I have studied enough to properly expound upon His truths.
How much you know, how much you trust in what you have read and studied is how much He will use you, not how much He could use you, but how much He will.
“But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” (Heb. 5:14)
It is rather amusing in a way for me, the older I get, the more teeth I lose, yet He offers me the toughest parts of His truths to chew on now.
You must be available, and so by default you must be willing, which in turn will cause you to search out those deep things of God, those questions that only He can answer, those answers that will not be given to you in this life, and in fact, some may never be answered for us.
“Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:” (Isaiah 55:6)
“Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” (Jer. 33:3)
You can study His Word from sunup to sundown, but if you do not make yourself available to Him, He may not use you, at least not as much as you might want Him to. You must deny yourself, but not those that depend on you, for Mark 10:44 is a truth. “And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.”
You must not find the time to read and study His Word, to pray and praise His name, you must make the time.
That really is all there is to making yourself available to the Most High, there are no special words, no prescribed prayers, no books that will assist you in this, you must simply make time for the Lord, and He will use you.
“Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.” (Psalm 46:10)
“Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.” (Psalm 27:14)
Do you want to be profitable for His Kingdom? Then study His Word, seek His will in your life, ask Him to reveal to you how to rightly divide His Word.
“To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.” (Prov. 1:6)
He can use a little child to call an old person to Himself, one who knows only that Jesus loves them, if He can do that with such a young and simple heart, think what He can do with one whose life is devoted to Him, one who pleads with Him daily to show him the path of life, to keep his lamp full, to reveal His glory and majesty to him.
All that so he can reveal those truths to others, solely for the glory of the Living God.
I pick this pen up in great fear, I put it down in complete exhaustion, I read what has been written, I ask Him to use it for His glory. And then I ask Him to keep me available, while I continue to seek His face.
