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Even after you’ve found your groove, remaining steadfast in it requires a fierce tenacity. While knowing your particular part of the cosmos is energizing, it also carries gravity. You’ve been entrusted to steward a talent that requires care, risk, and time. If you only pursue it nonchalantly when the urge hits, it’s more of a casual hobby than what you were born to do. Greater clarity won’t make it easy—but will make it possible.
Even so…
It’s essential to remember that our gifting isn’t primarily for us to do things for God. That’s conditional creation, where we hope to prove our worth or value in what we do. Relational creation flows from how we create with God. More than a creational journey, we are first in a relational journey. May we never get so busy doing things for God that we miss what he’s doing for us. Whatever it is, you can be certain his focus is more on intimacy than efficiency.
These people show honor to me with words, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is worthless. The things they teach are nothing but human rules. (Matthew 15:8-9 NCV)
Even so...
The temptation will be to wait until God answers all our questions before we take the next step. We say, “Show me the way. Then I’ll come.” God says, “Come. Then I’ll show you the way.” He invites us into adventures that are equal parts faith and mystery. When God invited Abram (who was seventy-five!) to take a journey that would change the fate of nations, he told him to go to the place now that he would show him later.
The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.” (Genesis 12:1 NIV)
Even so…
God does offer one guarantee—that his presence will be with us through it all. That’s not a consolation prize. It is everything.
(From The Creativity Glitch: How to Stop Being Stuck, Find Your Groove, & Create with God. Copyright © 2026 Allen Arnold.)
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