The view from here...
For a Christ-follower, using your gifts in worship is an act of heart… Something most creatives can easily wrap their right-brains around…
Heart… Feeling… Inspiration… Soul…
Virtually required elements for creativity.
Lately, Inspiration has been eluding me. I generally feel that I have a fairly deep well to go to when I need to draw out an idea… a image… a solution…
But not recently.
It’s like there’s a gate inside my mind that all of the good ideas are hiding behind… All I seem to be capable of is approaching the gate and knocking… But the gatekeeper is nowhere to be found and I seem to have misplaced my keys.
I haven’t even been able to write for a couple of weeks… In truth, I think my best writing is actually months behind. So, I dug deep and consulted a reliable source…
I prayed about it.
I wonder, often, about non-believers… How they access their creativity… Because I really identify with Jesus’ assertion:
I am the vine, you are my branches… Apart from Me, you can do nothing…
I’m not courting false-humility here… This is literally true. I’ve tried to use my creativity outside of the realm of worship and “Christian service” and it’s always a dismal failure.
I understand that this isn’t true for every christian… I know a number of artists that are able to move in their creativity in “secular” situations. I’ve always found this interesting and have recently just accounted it to differences in individual calling…
But true worship flows from the heart. On another occasion, Jesus said:
The time is coming, and is already here, that the true worshippers will worship in spirit and in truth…
Worship through artistic expression, therefore, must naturally flow from a true reflection of my innermost being… from a heart empowered by God’s Spirit. Whether I write or lead the band or doodle graphics or any of the other outlets for creativity that I offer up, it’s just not “worship” without integrity and connection with God.
When I suffer from “blocked” creativity, I start looking for a breakdown in either Spirit or truth or both…
I found an interesting combination of breakdowns when I prayed about this…
And I want to share these… If not for the sake of anybody but myself…
And, what are blogs for if not narcissistic navel-gazing…
Tomorrow… Part 2, All Stressed Up and No One to Punch…
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