I’ve realized, that, in my life, much of my creative energy has been spent trying to be worshipped. I don’t mean to say I thought I was a god, or wanted other people to think I was a god, but I certainly wanted other people to be impressed. In part, this is an identity issue we grapple with in our youth. We want to be creators, and we want to be good, and we need somebody outside ourselves to tell us we are good. That’s how we work, internally. No creator can stand in front of the mirror and say they are good and believe it. Humans are designed so that somebody outside themselves tells them who they are. Jesus, who created the world (all things were made in Him) and is going to create a new place for us, was still “named” by the Father. Christ’s confidence, or I should say His “knowing” who He was, came from God. In John 5 we see “as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son also to have life in Himself” and jesus says “I can do nothing on my own” and “I seek not my own [...]
