As I have told some of you, I have often felt that God was literally feeding me words to write at times when I was putting together the manuscript for Distant Replay. There were many times where I stopped writing simply because I was stuck and had no clue how to get the plot where it needed to go.
Then, at some of the strangest (and often most appropriate) times, God spoke to me. Hours upon hours of writing would follow afterward.
After finishing the draft, and thanking God for having been able to do so, I began reading the Bible with the intent of finishing it in 90 days. A few days ago, God spoke to me about the Distant Replay again. This time, it was to reinforce the message of the book.
Having sat on the book for about a month, I haven’t really thought about it much. When people have asked what the book is about, I would sometimes struggle to concisely sum it up to sound like I actually wrote the thing.
Then, while reading in chapter 9 of the book of Jeremiah, God did it:
4 “Beware of your friends;
do not trust your brothers.
For every brother is a deceiver,
and every friend a slanderer.
5 Friend deceives friend,
and no one speaks the truth.
They have taught their tongues to lie;
they weary themselves with sinning.
6 You live in the midst of deception;
in their deceit they refuse to acknowledge me,”
declares the LORD.
Wow. God summed up a book of nearly 70,000 words in just 11 lines. God Rules!
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You could use that scripture on the inside cover or something…
I have kind of been thinking that too. In fact, as I have been reading through the Bible, I have come up with many story ideas that could be fully based on one or two lines of scripture.