When You Doubt Your Calling as a Writer

by Katy Kauffman @KatyKauffman28

We need you. Maybe you’re doubting your abilities as a writer. Maybe you’re new to writing and wonder if you can really fulfill God’s calling. Let me encourage you to play your song.

Each writer is like an instrument in an orchestra, and each instrument is needed. A single violin, although moving and beautiful, does not deliver the power of the brass section or the rhythm of the percussion instruments. An orchestra needs all of its instruments and musicians, just like the body of Christ needs all of its members. Just like the book market needs all of its writers.

Are you proficient at stirring hearts with inspirational romance or with real-life stories of redemption? Do you play the staccato notes of a thriller, leading the reader further into mystery and suspense? Or do you pour from your soul melodic poetry that resonates with your readers’ life events and trials? Each “song” is needed.

Regardless of the level of our proficiency, we all keep mastering the craft—the art—of writing. Each time we reach a new level of artistry, we discover more “songs” to play, more notes to write. Each book that takes us deeper into the realm of truth and feeling, shows us where we are compared to where we need to be. As we guide the reader through our song, we also grow bit by bit. 

As long as we have new realms of knowledge and story to travel, we will keep growing, allowing our readers to experience the adventure with us. Our songs will not only entertain or encourage, they will keep pointing our listeners to the Master Musician, whose every note immerges from a heartbeat of love.

God has made us in His image—we appreciate love and crave it; we respect love and want to give it. As Christians who write, we share the love of God as we encourage people to hope when all seems dark. We draw out of Scripture treasures of light and truth that can set their hearts free.

So if you’ve ever been hesitant to play your song, don’t be. The orchestra won’t be complete without you. As we each do the assignment God has given us, we join forces to have one powerful Christian voice—a masterfully written symphony that only God Himself could orchestrate. Every instrument is needed, every song, every note. Join the symphony and answer God’s call to write. Or be encouraged to keep trying. Your song may be exactly what someone else needs to hear.

Tell us in the comments below what genre of writing is music to your soul. Tell us how you’re striving to grow more proficient at delivering the melody God has entrusted to you.

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Katy Kauffman is an award-winning author and a co-founder of Lighthouse Bible Studies, a ministry which seeks to connect people to God through His Word. She has taught the Bible to women and teens, and has published two Bible studies on winning life’s spiritual battles. Her newest release, Breaking the Chains, is a compilation on how to overcome spiritual bondage. Katy is also an editor and a designer of Refresh Bible Study Magazine. She makes her home near Atlanta, Georgia.