Make Art

So I went to the Willow Creek Leadership Summit and a man named Seth Godin talked a lot about creativity.  About how society has made us to be a "cookie-cutter" mold of people.  We are meant to be nobody so they can ignore us and move on.  God has created us all to be somebody and it is truly by embracing the things that make us different do we see how God is working in our lives.  We need to constantly strive to create new things, to find things that bother us and to change them.  To go hard and not look back.  Understanding that when we fail, it is just an opportunity to learn something no one else knows.  We should not fear failure, but embrase it and look forward to it.  It can teach us many things.

This coupled with another talk about the power of God have just truly motivated my heart.  He talked about Elisha and how he said that filling ditches without rain or anything would be an easy task for the Lord.  How often do we insult God with our prayers for such small things.  I want to be a man known for his reckless faith, who prays for crazy things and actually believes God will do something amazing.  He is just waiting for us to dig the ditches and to pray and earnestly seek him.  I know God is going to do amazing things here in Founders this year, and I can't wait to see how God unfolds his Vision for all the RD's, RA's and to the students.  I believe God will unify us, and if he doesn't we'll try again next year.  We cannot stop till God truly comes through and changes our lives and the lives' of everyone around us.  Redemption is one of God's favorite things; God redeem Bethel and founders.  We need you to move, and I believe you will.  Use me, use the other RA's to work together to get where we need to be.  Teach us and move in us.  Allow it to not be about me, nor about others, but about true glorification of God here.  We are waiting and praying God.  Do something amazing!

Both of these are working together to have a profound impact on me trying to be creative and working towards what God is doing.  To try new things and to strive to make art.  To make something beautiful for Christ.  Let's change the world!