Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

Crafting Web sites since 1999

I am a Web designer passionate about creating elegant, inspiring, and usable Web experiences that connect with an audience and fulfull business objectives.

The Holy Spirit and Creativity

October 30, 2006

My work · Random

Orig­i­nally posted on Godly Cre­ative Peo­ple Forum on August 22. It gives a lit­tle more back­ground on the heart behind my new theme of “thir­ty­o­nethree.“

This sum­mer I took a the­ol­ogy class with Dr. Bruce Ware of South­ern Sem­i­nary. One of the lec­tures focused on the Holy Spirit. Dr. Ware pointed out that the Holy Spirit was given tem­porar­ily in the Old Tes­ta­ment and that there was some func­tional rea­son to empower them, a task to accomplish.

There were only four groups that Scrip­ture records as the Holy Spirit empow­er­ing in the Old Testament:

  1. Civil lead­ers — Moses, lead­ers that Moses shared the load with (Num­bers 11:10–17, 24–29) Saul and David are examples
  2. Judges
  3. Prophets
  4. A crafts­men — Exo­dus 31:3 explains that the Holy Spirit empow­ered Beza­lel to do works of art and crafts­man­ship for the tabernacle

I found it really inter­est­ing that one the four cat­e­gories was for cre­ative endeav­ors. One of the great­est chal­lenges I find is involv­ing God through the entire cre­ative process, through prayer and con­stant con­ver­sa­tion. I want to involve God through the entire process. I don’t want my skills and com­pe­ten­cies to ever cause me to for­get Who endowed me with them and it is His grace that empow­ers me.

I love the moments where the cre­ative flow is going and I think of a quote from Eric Lid­dell. He said that when he ran, he felt God’s plea­sure. He was doing what God gifted him to do. I have moments when I feel the plea­sure of God when I cre­ate. And there are moments when it is so obvi­ous that it is the Holy Spirit work­ing in me to solve a cre­ative prob­lem or have an idea.

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