And every day I would walk to my office and spend the morning reading the Bible and praying. No agenda. No video to write, no sermon to compose, no strategy for global evangelism to craft. Just reading and praying. This went on for weeks. At first I was anxiously expecting God to reveal the next “big thing”—the next mountain he wanted me to climb—the next life-changing story he wanted me to write. But after a few weeks stretched into a few months, I didn’t care so much anymore. Eventually it struck me that I no longer felt the need to write anything. I didn’t need to have any impact at all.
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