It’s Impossible
-An exclusive excerpt from Allen’s new book-
The best way to identify your stuck places is to consider what seems insurmountable. Not for someone else, but for you. If we keep the concept of the Creativity Glitch at arm’s length, we will limit our understanding to what’s going on in the world around us or in others—but not in us. We will gain knowledge about the issue without gaining any freedom from it.
While our current situation can feel impossible to overcome, the way forward isn’t convincing ourselves or others why change isn’t possible—or defending our perceived limitations. Rather than make our stuck places more comfortable, let’s grow less comfortable in them. Our stuck places aren’t who we are. They are what’s in the way.
This makes things personal—and that’s exactly what we need to do. So what are you facing that feels like there’s no possible solution? “Impossible” is a word we use when our view of a problem becomes more real than our view of God. But the impossible becomes possible as you invite the Creator into every aspect of your creativity. When God invites you into something that seems too good or too big, you can either run with him or run from him. You can either go down alone or go with God as he leads. To follow him one step at a time as you believe…and begin.
The world will say it’s impossible. It always does. Don’t believe it.
Nothing, you see, is impossible with God. (Luke 1:37 MSG)
It’s the last two words of that sentence—with God—that make the rest of it possible. Without God, none of our dreams and efforts are guaranteed. Even when we enter into our pursuits with God, they will be opposed. Scripture tells us that no weapon formed against us will be successful (Isaiah 54:17)—but that means that there are weapons in the spiritual realm that have been expertly crafted to take us out. Weapons that can make us glitch. To pretend otherwise is naïve. Our assurance is that, with God, no weapon formed against us will prevail.
God also promises to restore the places long devastated within us by healing our fractured hearts and setting us free from all that’s kept us stuck (Isaiah 61:1, 4).
So why aren’t we experiencing more victory in our stuck places? We’ll look at that next.
(From The Creativity Glitch: How to Stop Being Stuck, Find Your Groove, & Create with God.Copyright © 2026 Allen Arnold.)
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