In our fast-paced world, it’s easy to forget that spiritual work, especially creative work, often unfolds slowly. We expect divine ideas to come fully formed and bear fruit overnight. But working with God usually requires deep focus, long attention spans, and a commitment to process. Divine assignments rarely come with deadlines or step-by-step plans. You’ll need to sit with God’s thoughts, sometimes for days, weeks, or years. It takes maturity to stay engaged when there’s nothing physical to show for it yet. Don’t be discouraged. God’s work in your mind and heart is just as real as anything in the physical.
Creativity and spiritual gifts operate in a dimension that’s often intangible. When you spend hours thinking, praying, planning, or writing, there’s often no obvious output. Meanwhile, someone else could be laying bricks or digging a hole and point to “results.” But don’t be fooled. Many of God’s greatest works begin as invisible seeds. You must learn to value the unseen. The enemy of spiritual creativity is short attention span. When you can’t sit still long enough, you abandon ideas too early. That’s how many divine assignments die. Buried under distractions, doubts, and impatience.
Even in the Bible, what looked sudden was often a slow build. God gave Noah an ark-sized vision, but it took a while. Some scholars say it took over a century to complete. The ten plagues in Egypt were not dropped in a week. Moses spent 40 days on the mountain for just two stone tablets. Don’t rush divine processes. If your idea is taking time, that doesn’t mean it’s failing. It might just be growing under the surface. Stay in the place of prayer. Stay with your sketches, your drafts, your notes. Don’t quit the work because the world can’t see the output.
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