Create: Stop Making Excuses and Start Making Stuff

by Stephen Altrogge

We tend to treat creativity like magic: we should be able to summon it at will.

As Douglas Wilson says: Be at peace with being lousy for a while. Chesterton once said that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. He was right. Only an insufferable egoist expects to be brilliant first time out.

If our work is for the Lord our ultimate reward comes from the Lord as well. He will honor our diligent efforts to serve him. If we are seeking to be creative for the glory of God, he will reward us.

Don’t crave being creative, actually be creative.

Even the best writers need the help and feedback of others. Even the best writers write really lame first drafts. God has created us to need other people. We are dependent on others.

The Christian life is a life of community and togetherness. God doesn’t intend for us to live Lone Ranger lives, enjoying our gifts all by our lonesome. He intends us to have a servant mentality. A sharing mentality. A mentality of using our gifts to actively bless others.