Jan 31, 2022
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I’d like to challenge and hopefully inspire you to be a
creator in your work.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Last week we talked about how God seemed to have something
special in mind with the number 22, assigning the numbers of
letters in His language, the # of chromosomes in our DNA and the
number of His works of creation.
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and
over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all
the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created
him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God
said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and
subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the
birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the
earth.”
When we are acting like our Father, from whom we were made, we
are creators.
Creating is kind of like giving, because the that which we
create can be a blessing to others.
Acts 20:35 "...And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that
He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than
to receive.’ ”"
We live in a society run by Satan, where we are encouraged to
take and not to give, to consume and not to produce.
In the workplace, this issue is front and center. We
have a choice each day we work whether we will be part of the
problem or part of the solution, whether we will give more than we
get.
Are we focused more on being mentored or mentoring others, on
being helped or helping others?
Are we more upset when others don't show up at meetings we
schedule than we are with ourselves when we're late for someone
else's meeting?
When it comes to discipleship and spiritual growth, are we
primarily focused on being fed by other teachers, or feeding
others, i.e. sharing with others the truths you've already
learned.
Luke 6:38 says "Give, and it will be given to you: good
measure, pressed down, shaken together, and
running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure
that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
Matt 6:33 says
"But seek first the kingdom of God and
His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to
you."
God's economy says give first and trust you'll receive
later. His greatest commandments are to love God and love
others. Satan's goal is to look out for #1 and if we live in
our flesh and not in the spirit, we will constantly be looking out
for ourselves and our best interests, whether it's in the
workplace, in our marriage, or any other part of our lives.
So coming back to the issue of creation, I challenge you and
myself to look for ways to be a giver, but more specifically to be
a creator. Find ways in your work to create something new
rather than just benefitting from the creation of others.
What does that mean exactly? That truly will vary depending
on your type of work, but I suggest you start thinking about the
people with whom you work and who are affected by your work.
What can you do, through your work, to bless others?
In my life outside of my full-time job, I'm looking for ways
to create through writing, since I've always liked to write.
When I was young I wanted to be a journalist. I had a blog
before I started producing this podcast. I wrote the book "Jesus is
at Work" but have wanted for a while to write some type of
fiction. I recently found out that Amazon Kindle launched a
service last year called Kindle Vella, where authors can write
episodes of a longer story as a way of providing content a little
at a time. I've been looking for ways for my 13 year old daughter
to use her creative skills instead of just consuming playing video
games and shared this with her and she's pretty excited about
writing stories on this service and so that's got me excited as
well.
So I guess I would ask you to think outside of the box of your
9-5 job about how you can create something this week. Maybe
you write a little poem for your wife. Maybe there's a
creative project you've put off for a long time that you just need
to take that first step.
Pray about it and then take action.
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