Christ: The Source of Creativity

The Lord spoke the world into being. His infinite creativity is seen in the unbelievable diversity and intricacy of the physical world. And the Book He gave to us is a perennial best-seller! In light of all this, His children should be the most creative people on the face of the earth. If we then struggle with creativity—and I cannot believe I am alone in this—I must conclude that it is due to the operation of a different spiritual law: “You have not because you ask not.” Let me share the experience of A.B. Simpson, a prolific author of the 19th century:

I had a poor sort of a mind, heavy and cumbrous, that did not think or work quickly. I wanted to write and speak for Christ and to have a ready memory, so as to have the little knowledge I had gained always under command. I went to Christ about it, and asked if He had anything for me in this way. He replied, “Yes, my child, I am made unto you Wisdom.” I was always making mistakes, which I regretted, and then thinking I would not make them again; but when He said that He would be my wisdom, that we may have the mind of Christ, that He could cast down imaginations and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ, that He could make the brain and head right, then I took Him for all that. And since then I have been kept free from this mental disability, and work has been rest. I used to write two sermons a week, and it took me three days to complete one. But now, in connection with my literary work, I have numberless pages of matter to write constantly besides the conduct of very many meetings a week, and all is delightfully easy to me. The Lord has helped me mentally, and I know He is the Savior of our mind as well as our spirit.

So if your creative well seems to have run dry, I want to point you to the Fountain of Living Water—Jesus. It’s one of the things I learned from the kindergarteners in Sunday school: whenever the teacher asked a question, they would always answer, “Jesus!” And they were right—the answer to every question is Jesus. He is our All in All.  ]]>