Count on Opposition

If your creativity feels opposed, you’re in good company. The enemy has opposed God’s specific role as Creator as well as his creation since the beginning of time. 

This explains a lot about the opposition you face whenever you’re trying to bring a creative project to life. Because whatever we seek to create with God will be opposed. Count on it. The enemy hates anything that reflects the glory of God…including us and our art. He will throw everything possible at you to kill, steal, and destroy these Kingdom initiatives. Chaos is one of his favorite weapons.

Madeleine L’Engle, the acclaimed author of A Wrinkle in Time, was well aware that  we live in a world of chaos. Yet she urged artists not to normalize the chaos in their creations: "Some artists look at the world around them and see chaos, and instead of discovering cosmos, they reproduce chaos, on canvas, in music, in words. As far as I can see, the reproduction of chaos is neither art, nor is it Christian." 

There’s the tension, right? In this world we will have trouble. But we are to take heart within the chaos because Jesus has already overcome the world (John 16:33). 

Let your creativity reflect this reality by filling it with God’s cosmos rather than the world’s chaos.

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