“We should not expect to be adequate for anything God calls us to do except that Christ makes us adequate.” ~ Don Whisnant

Feeling inadequate to write used to stop me from submitting material. But Christ wanted to free me from my self-deprecating ways.

The worldly writer calls insecurity a mark of creativity, but the faith-writer joys to be a pen in God’s hand. It’s Him we trust for the words we put to paper. It’s His life within that spurs us to grow in our craft.

Is Christ our adequacy? If so, we’ll learn to soar above the critics when our identity and purpose is threatened because we know where we’re rooted. Our part is to write; His part is to render the words effective. As the firmly rooted writer-in-Christ rests in His grace, she stumbles over self less and less.

And trusting Christ for this enablement causes us not only to take more risks, but to write for His glory instead of ours.

“I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to his service.” ~ 1 Timothy 1:12

“Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent as ministers. . . ~ 2 Corinthians 3:5-6a