You just never know when or where the Lord is going to speak to your heart.

I was taken a shower when the thought came to me as to who the ultimate blogger would be from the Bible.

I began to think about it and the Lord brought the Psalmist David to mind. It made sense and I said," your right Lord!”

David would really fit into the blogging scene. He would make full use of the Internet, to bring glory and honor to the Lord and the very thing that He does in the Psalms is the very thing that would draw him to blogging.

David writes from the heart, writes from his inner most being. He shares his failures, his hurts, his joys, his victories.

He is real and the very fact he is real is what would draw people to his blog if he was writing in our day and time.

What draws us to the Psalms is that we can identify with him, with the things he shared. He is open, vulnerable and misunderstood at times.

Here is a man who danced before the Lord and when his wife told him he was foolish, he said, “I will be even more foolish.” He was not afraid to share his heart, his love for God or admit when He made a mistake and was quick to ask forgiveness and move on.

David had a heart after God. He was a friend of God. He was on intimate terms with the creator of heaven and earth. He was quick to repent, to change, to allow the Spirit of the Lord to mold him to be an instrument in His hands.

Next Monday evening, I will have the opportunity to share with the Christian Authors Guild which meets in Marietta, Georgia, about Hill Country Thoughts. What it is all about, why I chose this way to write, how it came about.

My hearts desire is to share the reality of the Lord Jesus Christ. To share the fact that we can walk in the ways of the Lord now. That we can live in the reality of who He is now, today. We can walk with the peace of the Lord, knowing that He has and is preparing the way before us. That we are real people, living in the real world, and serving a living Lord.

As I shared with a friend the other day, I would have to say that the last three years have been the best years of my life as I went through the chemotherapy, radiation, the two surgeries and the divorce.

I know that to the world, that does not make sense, butI was brought back into focus, brought back to that first love relationship with the Lord, that I have gone from knowing Him as Savior, to knowing Him as Lord.

And because of this, Hill Country Thoughts was birthed and new life has sprung forth and the Lord has allowed me to become a pen in His hand. Allowing me to share, like David, my heart.

Being real makes one vulnerable, it exposes our flaws, even as David, exposed his. We can identify with Him and hopefully others can identify with what we share as we walk this road of life.

To know that no matter what we go through in life, the Lord will be with us to lead us through as we stay focused on Him. May the reality of the Lord be seen in what we write but also in the life that we live, for often times, our lives speak a lot louder than our words.

I don’t think I have been given a greater honor than hopefully being a pen in the hand of God. That He has allowed me to reach out and touch others, to share the hope that is within.

The one thing that I know, is like David, I want to encourage others, to share from the heart the life changing power that comes from serving the Lord, that in serving Him, we are set free.

Till later,

Paul