The Dreaded Blank Page... And the God That Is Still There Anyway

I don't know what to write today. I've been staring at this screen for 45 minutes. Please, God, what can I say? Ok, I resorted to Bible Roulette and this is what I got:

Praise the Lord.

Praise, O servants of the Lord,

praise the name of the Lord.

Let the name of the Lord be praised,

both now and for evermore.

From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets,

the name of the Lord is to be praised.

(Psalm 113v1-3)

So I'm gathering from this that I should praise the Lord? Well, I can do that.

My God is awesome. He made the stars. And the ocean. He invented cats. Not that I particularly like cats, but that's beside the point.

My God rescued me from the black pit of depression. Something I spoke about at church yesterday, but hadn't really remembered for a while. He took me from a place of unthinkable darkness and filled me with His light. And now He has placed me on a hill to shine out for all to see His glory. So that's what I'm gonna do.

A-ha! And now I see where the "inspirational" bit comes in.

I don't have to make my own light. I don't have to be like "Ta-da! Look at me I'm wonderful!" Which is great because I'm not feeling all that wonderful right now.

I can be the moon. The moon doesn't shine by itself. Instead all it has to do is reflect the sun. Simples. Except not.

Sometimes the moon is full and it can shine out this massive great light into the night sky. And that's brilliant and the moon probably loves those nights.

But at other times, things seem to get in between the moon and the sun, and its light is diminished. Sometimes the moon isn't shining at all. At those times, the moon might think,

"Where has the sun gone? I could see it so clearly before."

I know sometimes I feel like that. God seems to have disappeared and, no matter how hard I try, I just can't shine that well by myself.

But has the sun really gone anywhere? No. The sun is there and it is shining whether the moon can see it or not. And the same thing is true about God. Even more so. One day, the sun and the stars and all that stuff will boil away into space and stop shining. But God? God is everlasting. He was there before the beginning and He will be there after the end. 

So even when, like me, your inspiration has run dry, or you feel like you can't do it any more, or your circumstances are such that you just can't see God right now, 

He is still there.

Shining. Eternally.