The Glory Muse

Good writing comes from a skilled mind. Great writing comes from an inspired soul.

There are many people who have taken their quill and rewritten the course of men's lives. Many books have been penned with power to change lives. However, very few men have used their pen to shape history.

Men like Lewis, Tozer, Tolkien; or how about Plato and Shakespeare? These men did not just write great works, but actually shaped the history of their age with the might of their literary endeavors. In fact, culture itself would not exist the way that it does had it not been for the works of great men and women such as these! So tell me, why were their writings so much more cataclysmic than the writings of their fellows? Because they wrote from the soul.

The souls of men are able to set fire to that which the intellect, alone, cannot. As history has revealed to us time and time again, a single human soul, if set aflame with passion, can change the course of a nation.

Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Billy Graham, Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King Jr....Jesus...history has been written around the souls of men set to flame. So my question becomes, do you want to be the type of person who writes to the minds of men, hoping to intellectually stir them to action? Or do you want to become a fire that burns into the very souls of men, shaping the world as you know it? If it's the latter, I would ask you one thing: Where is your muse?

Every cataclysmic writer in history wrote with a burden in his soul that compelled him to create. He burned with compassion, or anger, or hunger, or need...each history shaping writer wrote with a single burden in mind. So what is yours?

For me, it is simple: God.

My heart yearns, weeps even, for the glory of God to be revealed. I am desperate to see Him glorified. This is my one and only passion, and it is a fire that compels me to write. I cannot still my hand until the day when the earth is full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. I cannot satisfy this hunger nor quench this thirst. I must burn with this burden until all men burn with me.

Which is why I named this Blog the Glory Muse. God's glory has become the fire that enables me to burn bright in all I do. I am determined that I will not simply change lives, but history itself. Will you join me?

From one writer to another, I challenge you to find your one burden, and to burn bright. Others will catch the flame.