When do authors write Christian
Science Fiction (CSF)? Is there this special year, date, and time of day
that someone begins writing? I can’t
speak for other writers, but for me, I began writing CSF when I finally
realized God had prepared me and was calling me to do so.
God didn’t send me a vision, a
dream, or an angel to tell me to write a book which blends science fiction with
Biblical facts so He could deliver a message to those who might not otherwise
be reached. Instead, it was years of life changing events, gentle prompting,
and doing miscellaneous things to prepare me to write-though, sometimes I
feel as if I would have wanted God to
tell me using one of these direct methods.
I’m sure you’ve heard the saying,
“timing is everything”, well as a Christian that saying is something I live
with everyday. I tend to want to start
and complete something on my time schedule, but my schedule of doing Gods work,
such as writing CSF, is not necessarily Gods schedule of my doing his
work. God says in Ecclesiastes
3:3, “There is a time for everything, and a season
for every activity under the heavens.” How often I rush to do things when I
want to, not when God wants me to.
If my CFS
book is to be written, published and read, I want it to be done when God wants
it done- not me. Gods timing is perfect
and events occur in my live, and my readers live, when God wants to bless me,
my readers and at the same time glorify Himself.
To
summarize, the time when I write CSF should be on Gods schedule not mine. Is it
easy for me to follow Gods schedule? No. Will I find that I continually try and
use my schedule instead of Gods? Yes. What
can I do to try and follow Gods schedule? Spend time in His word, pray, and try
my best to hear Him when He tells me when to write CSF.
I hope you’ll
respond to this post and offer your comments, ideas, and questions.
Barry Knox
I'd have to say that my experience was similar to yours. I received many prompts and hints from God to write Sci-fi from my own Christian perspective. Growing up, I always loved space operas (and that's primarily what I write), but I hated the evolutionary elements that came with them. Now I write space operas with the creationism in mind. I've gotten a lot of positive feedback and several people have told me how refreshing it is to be able to have that for their children (I write YA Sci-fi).
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, it was all God's timing. But that's something I learned, too. It's always God's timing, no matter what we do. We only make it harder for ourselves when we think we have control.
Thanks for sharing Emily. It's nice to know others think along the same lines as I. I've always had problems with the evolutionary elements and think our society tends to view evolution as a law and not a theory.
DeleteIt's ironic, and also Biblical, that people find it easier to have faith in the mathematical impossibility of evolution and not have faith that God created the heavens and the earth.
That's why I believe God wanted to me write, "Mission Origin View". Not only did God create life on earth-he created it in six days and broke every scientific law and theory defined by man to glorify Himself.