I have been dealing with writer’s block for the last week or more. I’m glad that I got a little ahead on my blogs. Writer’s block is a terrible thing to have when you have committed to writing six blogs a week. Why not seven? Come on, give me a break. I need at least one day to rest my tired brain. (lol) At any rate, as I write this I think that I am coming out of “writer’s blockland.” Writer’s block is not all that I am thinking about these days. I thought of some other “blocks” that are much more devastating than writer’s block. You guessed right. I am going to share them now.
First, there is what I call “Bible block.” This means that a person knows that he or she needs to read the Bible on a daily basis, but for some reason keep putting something else ahead of it. After all, tomorrow is another day and we can get to it then. In a way I can understand this reticence about reading the Bible. Sometimes it is difficult to understand. (As it will be because its author is one who does not always see things as we do.) Then there are those “begot” sections, where “someone begot someone” is written over and over again. But the “begots” are important to give us information about the people in the Bible. We also have the names of people that are difficult to pronounce. Another thing is that the Bible tells us everything. Why did we need to know that David, “a man after God’s own heart,” committed adultery with one of his top general’s wife, and had him killed in battle? The answer is simple. The Bible is a book about truth and lets us know the truth about even its main characters. The only “hero” in the Bible is God/Jesus. He alone is without sin. The only excuse that I have had when I have had Bible block is just plain mental and spiritual laziness. I know that I do better when I read the Bible on a daily basis, and that all of the difficulties will take care of themselves. The Holy Spirit, who inspired the Bible, is available to lead us through whatever difficulties are in the text. If you have Bible block, overcome it by actually reading the Bible - whether you feel like it or not. Satan will jump up and down with fury and God will smile. Second there is what I will call “prayer block.” When we get prayer block it is because we do not realize at that time how important prayer is in our lives. People might say that they do not have time to pause and pray. That is because they think that they have to be in a certain posture, or place, to pray. Nowhere are we told in the Bible that there is a particular posture to pray every time we pray. I think that a place of prayer, or a “prayer closet” can add a dimension to our prayer lives, but we do not have to have such a place to pray. We can pray wherever we are. God’s ears are open to our prayers twenty-four hours a day every day. We can call on Him in any and all circumstances. I have found that I can pray in my car when I am traveling and still keep my mind on driving. (I do that a lot when I drive on I75, and if you have a spiritual bone in your body you will too. Lol) If you have a special place of prayer in your home, that is good. But if you do not it is not bad. Communicate with God wherever you are, and talk to Him about everything, including sinful thoughts, etc. He invites us to pray and wants us to pray. Third, I thought of other “blocks” that I will not deal with right now, e.g., “church block” and “witness block.” The important thing for you to remember is that when you have a spiritual block of any kind it is of the devil. He wants to block everything that will be spiritually good for you. If you are not reading your Bible or praying as you should, the devil is behind it. Remember this when you feel any kind of block that will harm you spiritually. My prayer is that this article will serve as a reminder to you of these things that I have written. Bro. Joe . Bro. Joe
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