WHY WRITE? WHY PUBLISH?

Why Write; Why Publish?                  update 11.01.16                 12.12..12
 
Why Write?               
  Every Child of God has a story. Our story, called a testimony of faith,
must be told in the first person.  Were that not enough reason to write,
every  Child of  God  having  sons or  daughters,  is responsible  to the
next generation to build bridges relating to his progeny his philosophy 
of  life.   If one believes he has failed to leave a  proper legacy for  his
family,  there are warnings  to  deliver and  forgiveness to  ask.  Most
of us have mixed emotions about the legacy we have left; some  good;
some,  not so  good.   The  writer  must make sure  the  message in his
written “legacy,”  does not consist mainly of an apology or some lame
excuse for his manner of  life,  but a  positive affirmation  of truth and 
faith in God, even if that faith came late in life.
   
  Those who truly know a man are his family and very close friends.  It 
is also possible, even to them, some of the issues of his life are still hid-
den.  Even a  Spiritual man has issues he is  not courageous enough to
discuss during his lifetime and the written word is an excellent vehicle
for things he cannot express verbally. After this is on paper, sharing it
might  not be as uncomfortable as thought.  This will result  in passing 
along life principles from the author to his/her loved ones;  a  blessing 
 indeed...  In addition to the potential  blessing for the family,  there is 
a clearing of the air,  when one puts  thoughts on paper.  This benefits 
the  writer more than he/she may know until it’s done.

Why Publish?
 There are many reasons to publish a manuscript.  The overriding rea-
son for publication is, every Child of God has a story.  Since each story,
or testimony of faith is unique, each has an audience, a particular set of
circumstances will impact.  There  is set before us a work to accomplish  
during our time on earth and by writing and publishing the story,  I may 
accomplish the work. Persons affected by reading your story may be 
miles or  years separated from the author and publication is  the only way
to reach the audience.  Consider the impact 40 authors of Holy Scripture,
who  wrote over a 1,000  year span,  have  had over the past  2,000 years.
We must  take care to  acknowledge  nothing  we  publish may in any way
compares to  Scripture.   Every Word  of   Scripture  is  Divinely inspired,
but the pen, or word processor  is still mighty as led of the Spirit of God.

   “I am not articulate enough to put my thoughts on paper.”   By perusing
the internet, one is able to find publishing companies, who will correct the 
grammar and do light editing of a manuscript for as little as $100 for up to 
225 pages.  It is unlikely our pages would exceed that and $100 spent on a
legacy for family and potential benefit to people in the future is well spent
money. There are also Godly teachers in your local schools who will assist. 
As will be evident to all, this author has not as yet taken advantage of this resource.

 Something to remember:  Give our Lord Jesus Christ the honor due Him
Him for  the benefit of  a well lived or changed  life.  Mention of a  human
instruments  He used to  bring this  about  in  us  is always secondary  and 
possibly unwise.

     It is rare for a book written by an unknown  author  to  be financially
rewarding.  If that is the reason for writing,  it must be the poorest pos-
sible motive.   Any  book, when the motive is financial, cannot  be a true
success.  Writing and  publishing is  like  anything else  in the  life of  the
Child of  God.  The idea must have been born in the heart of God and so
empowered.  May the Lord  God give u s wisdom  as we  set our hand to
pen and  ink  (Word Processor) or  to do  anything in  Kingdom  service,
must be our prayer.

     There is also this; A blog is a pretty simple means of getting the word
out with  little expense.   Just a word about my experience;   I have been
blogging since June, 2012. There have been over 11,000 occasions of peo-
ple I may or may not know who have read posts from the blog with about
one-fourth of  the readers outside the US of A, 372 from Russian and 276
from Germany, 84 from Serbia, 32 from the UK. A number of others have
a lesser number of hits.  There have been comments that were humbling 
and gratifying.  Since I am not that literate, it is nothing short of a miracle.  
The Lord is in it and he gets all the praise.  Thanks for reading...

(In the Proverbs of  Solomon,  10: 19 we read;  In  the multitude of  words
sin is not lacking, But  he who restrains his lips is wise.)  With this in mind,
I  trust we  remember to  use economy of  words as we communicate truth.
Why  don't  I  just create a blog and  post  the results of  my Bible study on 
that???

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