I have been blogging for more than a decade. Nearly every week, my followers have received some type of communication from me. People ask me if I ever get writer’s block. Do I ever stare at an empty screen wondering what to write about? My answer? Of course I do!

There have been countless times when I’ve struggled to put a sentence together or been tempted to skip a week and wait until the words flow more freely, especially when I’ve had a night of no sleep, like last night.  
 
This blog is written every Sunday morning. I set my alarm to wake at 7:00 a.m. so that I can send my words into your email box before I head to church. There are days when they flow like syrup on a hot stack of pancakes. Then there are days when the words get stuck in my head like Gorilla Glue®.

It’s in these moments that I re-evaluate my blog strategy. “Why don’t you write these during the week?” “Why don’t you write a few at a time and save them?” “Why don’t you consider doing these every other week?” “Why, why, why?”

While the above approaches are all sound, in a decade of publishing this blog, I’ve never implemented any of them. However, I have considered hitting the snooze button and simply skipping a week. I mean would it be so terrible for you to wake up and not find an Elevate the Day blog post waiting for you? Would you even miss it?

This was my prayer just before I fired up my laptop this morning:

“Lord, you know that I’m dog-tired. You know I was up all night and could barely get the creamer in my coffee. So I need your help this morning. Give me the words. Thank you Jesus.”

Asking for help is not a sign of weakness. It’s a sign of strength. It says, “I can’t do this on my own but I know who can help me.” Whether this is a colleague, friend, or our Father in heaven, who stands at the ready to help all of His children, asking for help gets the job done. When I’m weak, that’s when God goes to work. That’s when miracles can happen.

“And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:9-10 NKJV)

From time to time I receive lovely emails from people thanking me for whatever message I shared that day. I’m told it was “just what I needed.” This is what pushes me out of bed, to write and publish this blog every week. I never know whose life might be impacted by the combinations of letters I put on a screen that will become a post.

That’s why I ask God to help me, because then I know it is His words that are being shared. Those are the words that have the power to change lives. Mine? Oh sure I can turn a phrase, but if these are not prefaced by prayer, they’re just words on a page. They will fall flat and I’ll see a spike in my “unsubscribes.”

These days, it is becoming harder to persevere. It seems like every day we wake to some new battle either in the world or close to home. We each have been tempted to hit the snooze button and pull the covers over our head. “Make the world go away” echoes in our heads as we struggle to put one foot in front of the other.

This pandemic, this race, which we thought would be a 5K has turned into a never-ending marathon with no finish line in sight. A perpetual blank page with no words. However, there is light at the end of this tunnel if we only look to the One who knows exactly how and when this will all end.

“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:1-2 NKJV)

“For the joy that was set before Him…” Do you know what that joy was? You and me. Jesus went through an unimaginable crucifixion, the likes no one has or ever will experience so that we could one day be with Him in heaven. So that we could call upon His name and get help to run our race. So that we could face a blank page at 7:00 a.m. and with a simple prayer have a blog post.

I started this post less than an hour ago and it is now ready to send. That my friend is a miracle. We need more miracles, don’t you agree? Because of Jesus, we can freely ask for them and guess what? He’ll deliver.

God doesn’t get writer’s block. Ask Him for help today and watch your page fill up.