Introduction:
Ok, so I have been feeling like God is brewing a REVIVAL!
God personally comes to me with His reality (that I’m shocked and amazed at), and then with His love (super surreal, super beautiful), that “love” that people are doing the craziest things for to get from people or life, and then are still falling up short of… (FREE in Christ), and my response to God is, “This is too good to be true, BUT if it is then YES absoulutely you can be my God and tell me anything, what to change, where to go because my heart is willing, is excited. Bad things happen and I complain to Him some, but I never come from under reverencing Him as “God” WHO can do anything and is What..? being patient with our complaints instead of getting rid of us on the spot. We’re literally breathing grace, so I don’t understand why people push God away. And I’ve been looking around long enough to finally see the verses in God’s word that say that people love sin more than God.
God isn’t beautiful to people who’re already preoccupied. Hell is a real place created not for us but demons, but if our lifestyles continue to hurt other people and lead them astray from the truth God does have just judgment against that. And He lovingly warns us, and maybe even does things to “shake the scene” (quoting myself “Revival” poem) to get us to come to the end of idolatry. Idolatry/ misplaced worship is honestly where all the problems in the world root from. When people worship money it causes jealousy. When people worship attraction and relationships, it causes lust, lack of self-control, cheating, heartbreak, SUICIDE. (yikes! lol, but seriously…) However, when we all know we’re loved by God, we have peace and purpose.
♥ My Creative Aim was birthed out of my Spiritual Aim, to honor God, to worship Him the way He wants to be worshiped, and scripture says that’s in Spirit and truth. I like to tie truths and God’s desires into how I create to showcase Him, and sow seeds than can birth His Kingdom.
Right now I write poetry and make art, I hope to see, if God allows, myself make just about everything! Visit my site under the “CreatorDaisyJ” tab for details on ideas and my missions. We’ll see.
Regardless of your gift or talents, through faith and love, your life will be so powerful. We make soul differences. That’s not a light matter. Forget fame and look in the eyes of people. Please use your time well. There is an enemy who wants us to doubt God’s love and feel hopeless, but that’s not the case. Set an aim for God’s glory, and He will fulfill His will in your life!
Enjoy His love!
This blog is going to talk about:
• Living With Purpose In a Fallen World,
• Bearing Fruit/ Being Fruitful as You Work, and Helping Others, and • Specifically How Art as a Lifestyle Can Honor God.
Topics:
Living With Purpose In a Fallen World,
We live inside of God’s beautiful world! If you don’t find it beautiful, that’s likely because of how much of the reality of “the fall”/ the harmful effects of sin that you see around you. If you know God’s world as beautiful and don’t understand what “sin reality” I’m referring too, I’m speaking of areas in life with misfortunes and evils like sickness, murder, and depression.
God’s word teaches us that people have been made in His image. God is Spirit, and we are spiritual beings with fleshly bodies. We have fallen from His image, that is pure love, and remain people full of passions, wants, and desires that now, unfortunately, can get the better of us and reap lusts, fears, and sorrows that cause us to be selfish and destructive to the world that God made for us to enjoy Him and one another in.
From the womb, God gave us purpose. (Isaiah 44:24 “Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself”) • But from the womb we’re are also born in sin. (Psalm 51:5 “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.”) So our purpose has been lost and distorted.
God lives and is able to remind us and restore guidance in our lives, but our world has been given to the deceiver, Satan, and to punishment for self-inflicted (meaning disobedience) chaos and calamity.
That’s why before we ever discuss purpose we should know Jesus, and how it’s wrapped completely up in and around Him. Jesus bore the sins of the world on Himself. Where God was going to destroy all evil, us along with it, through Jesus we have the opportunity of redemption. We have an advocate who pleads for mercy and loves humanity as God loves Him, and as God has also loved and desired to create us and have us sent a savior.
God’s spirit lingers in grace among us sharing light as warm as the sun that everyone has experienced in some way. Sharing love, that deep in us we know we’re made for (A BLESSING), but are often out of touch with embodying. God gives new hope and beautiful opportunity every day. But because we live disengaged in relationship with Him and Christ, we live in forms of darkness and sin.
In fact, if you do seek to find purpose, it may be cut down or tainted by jealousy. It may be discouraged by people’s fear for you. It may simply go unattained for multiple reasons, and Satan loves playing a part in the sabotage. But Jesus has victory over Satan, and purpose/ mission for us where we can store up treasures where they can never be stolen or turned to rust.
Living with purpose in a fallen world is hard with and without Jesus. But in our Lord, Jesus is it’s eternally rewarding. It is fruitful, not just for ourselves, but His entire kingdom, for our brothers and sisters, for all of the world and every neighbor. Our purposes in Christ bless others with the light of faith and hope and love in God our Father who revives His infinite heart and home for us, through Jesus.
Being Fruitful As You Work – Helping Others
Ecclesiastes 1:14 “I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.”
If we want our work to be fruitful we need to do it alongside God, who provides and is able to grow harvest not just for our stomach, but our soul and Spirit. We need to humble ourselves before Him and talk with Him sincerely and seek His will. When we do the work we’re born to do, we’re doing the work God is pleased to see us live out. We’re doing what pleases God. We can know that starts with walking with His Son who pleases Him and then learning to steward our gifts well for love, which glorifies and pleases Him.
God’s word, where Jesus speaks teaches us:
JOHN 15:
1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned.7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.8 By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.
9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.
So by abiding in Jesus we become fruitful! Jesus says abiding in Him looks like abiding in His word and loving God and one another. Scripture will tell us specific commandments, like making disciples and how to destroy sin (which wounds our neighbors) to love and honor each other righteously. So we can know from reading scripture that apart of our purpose is to share the gospel, be holy, and teach others how to grow in these things.
It all begins with faith, with God’s grace calling us to Himself, and reopening our eyes to see how worthy and beautiful He is. From there, our hearts cannot help but spread the Good News and rebuke false teaching and doubts from the sinful nature and fallen world that may spring up. Our faith and fruit grows, and we help other’s grow theirs. Being a light like God has given us helps others’.
Being loving and stern in God’s truth helps others to stand. Any gift God has given us: singing, dancing, speaking or writing well, financial intellect, scientific intellect, etc. etc. can be the playing field where God has set us to live with integrity, faith, and love! Steward your gifts for God’s glory, and know that art is not just a page of internal scribbles, but a palette to paint and a palate for other’s to taste the goodness of God.
How Art as a Lifestyle Can Honor God.
Love is spiritual, as God is Spirit, but also physical which is why God sent His Son to be among us and why we’re in a well-crafted and lovely world.
God’s creation inspires us, and people inspire us.
The beauty of the mountains, sunsets, oceans, and wild animals, as well as the beauty of kindness naturally sparks and blesses our hearts. God obviously does not take creation lightly and neither should we in any form.
In James, we’re led not to love or have faith in speech only but also in action.
(James 2:15-16 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?)
• Intentional living is a way to set our aim to act and be an awesome witness to people. And one of the many ways we can do this is through intentional creativity and faith.
– I personally intertwine spiritual teachings in my writing to break strongholds off of people so that they live in freedom, the same freedom I found in the Christ I share.
If you’re able to profit from your artistry, you can afford to clothe your family and your neighbors, and the daily love and life you lead in Christ could witness to them. Therefore your creating would be means to an end, to glorify God through.
We certainly don’t want our crafts to portray things God wouldn’t have us to, but creating for the church (or scriptural symbolic art) is not our only domain. The whole world testifies of God (Romans 1). If you love making scenery, make scenic art as a Christian! If you love portraits, make portraits of any face you can think of! If you simply like using your imagination for cartoons or fantasy, start from scratch and have fun just like God did when He created you and the unique earth. All of it is eyeing God’s handiwork, saying this is good, and indeed His creation is good (Genesis 1), and out of your heart, mouth, and actions is the way you proclaim JEsus to be the one over it all and worthy of being worshiped in all He does.
Titus 1:15 “To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.”
You could use your abilities to make clothes we need if you’re sower. If you’re a potter you’re making the vessels that people need to eat from. We can produce an endless amount of materials that profit the order of the world, as God would have us in order, and the earth subdued in love.
Many creators are discouraged because it’s not they’re not likely earn a lot, nor is everyone able to understand how your art is being used by God outside of the church. But our Lord Himself was a carpenter and always about His Father’s business!
• It’s not about how much we make or where, but why we create and for who, and the passion and light we put inside it to build up hope in future generations.
Happy labor really is the way to go! It makes a faithful impact when it’s from a person who lives thankful to God and identifies as a Christian. It leads the lost we meet around the world into worship, through us, they get introduced to a life for God. We can meet them apart of our craft time, work hours, and the daily grind and lead them to Jesus through the Gospel. He doesn’t have to be in the art, if He’s in our heart, then He invites Himself into conversations.
Creativity like in all things must be a renewed passion. That begins with God renewing us and teaching our interest to turn and live for His kingdom. And once God has done this supernatural work in us, we are free! Certainly, if our eating and drinking can glorify Him, then however we create if done in peace and a thankful Spirit does also! Build up His name and glory wherever you are!
Matthew 25:14-29 : The Parable of the Talents
14 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them.15 And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey.16 Then he who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.17 And likewise he who had received two gained two more also.18 But he who had received one went and dug in the ground, and hid his lord’s money.19 After a long time the lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
20 “So he who had received five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents; look, I have gained five more talents besides them.’21 His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’22 He also who had received two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents; look, I have gained two more talents besides them.’23 His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
24 “Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed.25 And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’
26 “But his lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed.27 So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest.28 So take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents.
29 ‘For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
What is your tool of trade? Your talent? What will you create?
Be encouraged!
And do not allow your skills to go to waste! They have a purpose!
Remember, when living with purpose in a fallen world, there will be discouragement… and likely from the very people you labor for, but if it’s light that you are, continue to be even if they spew darkness. Go where your light grows. Do not force harvest to grow, as that job belongs to God (1Corithians3)! Simply sow seeds as far as you can! You will not always find the sweet nature of God’s promise in people, some places are hard, but God is a king and has a remnant of souls we labor for!
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