“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eyes.” Psalm 32:8 (NKJV)
Some days, I sit down with every intention to write… and nothing comes. I have the notes. I have the idea. I even have the time. But the words feel stuck somewhere between my heart and the page. My cursor blinks like a little metronome counting the seconds of my silence. And if I’m honest, that’s usually when doubt tries to start talking. It doesn’t sound loud. It sounds practical. “Maybe you don’t have anything to say.” “Maybe you’ve already said it all.” “Maybe you missed the moment.”
But I’ve learned something about God: He doesn’t abandon me in the stuck places. He meets me there. What’s so personal about it, and so tender in His faithfulness to me, is how He guides me. It’s not always with thunder or a dramatic sign. Most of the time, it’s with something simple: a sentence someone says, a line from Scripture that keeps repeating, an unexpected observation while I’m doing something ordinary.
God will send a person. Or a moment. Or an “aha” that lands so gently it feels like peace settling in my chest. What makes me smile, even in the middle of my writer’s block, is this: He usually confirms it twice. It will be the same theme showing up again. The same truth circling back. The same message arriving in a different package. Almost like God is saying, “I meant that, and I’m not finished speaking.”
I can’t count how many times I’ve been wrestling quietly with something, trying to put words to it, trying to make sense of it, only to have a friend casually mention the very thing I’ve been praying about. Then later that day, I’ll hear a sermon touch the same nerve. Or a devotional passage will echo it. Or a conversation I wasn’t even trying to have will confirm what God has already been whispering to my spirit.
It’s never random. It’s never late. It’s guidance. It reminds me that God isn’t only faithful in big moments. He’s faithful in the small, everyday details of my life. In the moments when I’m not sure. In the moments when I feel blank. In the moments when I’m asking, “Lord, what do You want me to say?”, and all I can offer Him is my willingness.
Psalm 32:8 feels like God speaking directly to me. Not just, “I will guide you,” but, “I will guide you with My eyes.” That’s closeness. That’s attention. That’s a God who is watching, not to criticize, but to lead. So when I’m stuck, I’m learning not to panic. I’m learning not to force it. I’m learning to watch for Him. Because if He has been faithful before, He will be faithful again. He will send the confirmation. He will send the clarity. He will send the reminder that I’m not writing alone, I’m being guided. Sometimes the greatest testimony isn’t that the words came easily… It’s that God met me in the silence and turned it into direction.
Where have you seen God “repeat Himself” lately, through people, Scripture, or moments that keep circling back? What might He be lovingly confirming?
Prayer:
Lord, thank You for being faithful to me, especially in the moments when I feel stuck, unsure, or empty. Thank You for guiding me with patience and tenderness. Open my eyes to the ways You are speaking, even through ordinary moments. Give me the humility to follow Your lead and the peace to trust Your timing. When You confirm Your word to me again and again, let it deepen my confidence that You are near.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
