The Sword is Mightier than the Pen

Hello dear readers I’m back. It’s been over a year since I posted a blog. I didn’t have internet at my new place and I’ve been on hiatus. So a lot has changed since I’ve written last. For one I moved out of my mom’s place and have my own apartment. I’ve been here since April of 2019 and I absolutely love being out on my own. It’s a great feeling to be able to take ownership and be free to make your own choices. Another thing that has changed is, since the COVID-19 virus, I’ve been redeployed to work at a different department until my place of business opens again. I just started this week and I’m impressed already. This group of people are amazing and very welcoming and helpful. We had a staff meeting and they prayed at the end so I’m surrounded by believers, which it’s so cool that I get to talk about God at work.               

So I’d like to explore a reoccurring issue in my life and it has to do with pens. Pens you might be thinking. What in the world could be an issue involving pens? Well I absolutely love Uniball Signo pens. I’m a writer and I journal a lot so I love having a good pen and these pens are great except for one thing they lose their luster toward the end of their life span. So what I do is I’ll use the pen until it starts to fade and I’ll crack out a new one and use that one before the previous pen has been all used up. Do I throw the previous pen away? No because what if I need a pen and they’re all I have left? So the reoccurring issue is the issue with pens is a manifestation of an inward problem. A heart issue if you will. I have a hard time finishing what I start. I don’t know the root of why I have this problem. I’m hoping to be like an explorer who travels far away and discovers something new at the end of the journey. That’s what I’m hoping this blog will do. My issue won’t go away overnight, which is just like most of our issues. We think that because we want to change that the change will come right away but it doesn’t work like that. It took awhile for the frame of mind to become a habit so it will take some time for it to go away. However, as long as you take a step forward when you can, it will begin to lead you further and further away from your old habit until finally that habit is gone and replaced by a new healthier habit.

This is just like a walk with Christ. God refines and renews us every day to look more like Christ. To have the mind of Christ. To walk in the light of Christ and think more and more like Christ. When we first become a Christian we come with baggage. Sometimes we come with old hurts, unforgiveness, bitterness, pain and sorrow. God has to work these things out of us because it is at odds with the mind of Christ. It is at odds with the Holy Spirit which is within us. Christ is all about love and he wants us to let go of the baggage and takes his hand. So the following is what scripture tells us about becoming a new creation.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17

What the scripture doesn’t tell us is that it’s a process. It will happen over time so be patient with yourself. Try your best every day and you will get there day by day. A life with Christ gives us hope. Since we have Christ we have a hope that all the baggage will eventually go away and we will be that new creation. Don’t give up. Keep moving forward. You’re gonna get there.

So now onto the title of this post. The sword is mightier than the pen. What follows is scripture that speaks of the word of God.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12

God’s word is like a sword, it pierces our hearts and shows us what we need to change in our live. He does so lovingly because he wants us to be more like Jesus. In order to have a Christ like mind we have to stay in the word of God and continue to seek his face. Is there something in your life that needs changing? Can you look to your Lord and Savior and ask him to change you from the inside out? I encourage you to pray about it. Believe me I will be praying about why I have a hard time finishing what I start. I know one thing that I can start doing to take a step in the right direction and that’s finish using up the ink in one of these pens. I have at least 10 that still have ink. So that’s my small step that will lead to big results.

How about you. What’s your small step? Share it with me and I will pray for you.

God’s word is mightier than any issue we face. For me it’s not finishing what I start for you it might be unforgiveness. Is there someone you need to forgive? I encourage you to do so. One thing this virus is showing me is that we don’t have as much time as we think we do. You don’t know when it will be too late to reconcile with that loved one. I encourage you to call them up and say I’m sorry, I held you hostage in my mind by not forgiving you. I forgive you. It’s not as hard as you think it is. Pray to God to help you forgive and he will be right there as you forgive that person.  

Dear readers Thanks for reading this 2020 blog. I look forward to what the Lord will do for us in the months to come.

Genuinely Yours,

Amy Z