Creative Fix: 2

But if I say, "I will not remember Him Or speak anymore in His name," Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire shut up in my bones; And I am weary of holding it in, And I cannot endure it. [The Book of Jeremiah Chapter 20, Verse 9]

... before Jesus that is, before we heard Him knocking and let Him in …

… that’s what it was like, I remember.

But now it's different. Different mainly because it’s impossible to accept Christ and remain unchanged.
 
For when faith comes it brings the spark – the good seed – of creation, of God’s saving grace and the prompting to go ye forth and prosper now, for Him and for others as well as ourselves.

We become or start to become what we’ve always really been: a crop seed designed to achieve the full and complete purpose given it; a seed that lays it’s roots down deep in order to reach higher and higher.

In the process we become little creators too. Not because we want to be God (we don’t want that anymore), but because we want to be like Him, honor Him, resemble Him, serve Him.

Because we have to. Because the fire tells us so. And because the healing coursing thru us frees our heart to say, “Yes.”

And so motivations change. We still feed the need to aspire and contribute, but now to please, not to prove. And step-by-step we turn from our scared and selfish ways into builders of something much more vital & alive that seems to get bigger the more we love.

It doesn’t happen overnight, I know, because I’m not nearly all there yet. But it comes. Brightly.

God turns all things to good for those who believe …