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| Psalm 127:1-2 1: A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. 2: It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. |
 Well,
let’s see what Psalm 127 says about creative movement. Go to Psalm 127 with me.
"Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain." Have you
forgotten that anytime during the past week? "Unless the Lord guards the city, those
who seek security watch in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to
rest." Now listen to this, what do we do? "Eating the bread of anxious
toil." We’ve lived there this week, haven’t we? Hello, am I talking to the
right folks? "Eating the bread of anxious toil." Now don’t you love this?
For it is God who gives sleep or rest - not stress, rest, not stress, rest,
not stress - for it is God who gives rest to those he loves. Well, creative movement. Creative movement is about learning how to live out
of God movements not self movements. So many of our movements during the week are self
movements. You see, rest, not stress, is the result of aligning my time, my energies, my
dreams, my relationships, my resources, with the creative spirit of God. Unless the Lord
builds the house, it is not my energy. It is not my ingenuity that is going to make
anything of value happen. It is the spirit of God.Now I
want you to keep your finger here because we’re going to come back, so kind of mark
this place if you’re following with me in your Bible. Turn over to the right to the
third chapter of the Gospel of John. John, the third chapter. A religious leader by the
name of Nicodemus came to Jesus. He was a person who had experienced much success. He was
part of the seventy leading Jews in Israel. He’d experienced success, he was
religious, but he wasn’t living out creative movement. He was living a dogged,
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Life is designed by God to be creative
movement. To just move in that creative presence of God. To dance to God’s design and
plan. But when you’re honest, how much of our movement the last week was not
creative? Think about this past week. How much of your energy was driven? How much of your
work was compulsive? Did you experience a frantic pace? And who didn’t put in a day
on cruise control? That is not creative. You see, because of the urgent, we miss the
important, don’t we? We believe in God, but, oh, how we miss the power of God’s
presence! And we miss the nurture we need in intimate friendship with Him.