Making is Our Mission: The Call to Create

Written By Matthew Taylor

To be an artist implies you use that skill. Using your craft gives artists the right to call themselves, “artists.” So it is with Christians. Being a disciple of Christ implies your whole life permeates with the life and love of Jesus. We were designed to use what God gave us and steward it.

Every time I make something, something that did not exist now exists in the world to be useful and beautiful for whomever. When I say “designed to make” I mean God gave us gifts to invest into the world for his kingdom.

What Does the Bible Say About Making and Stewardship?

Whatever He’s given us, make something with it.

When Jesus was asked about the end of the world, notice his commands and parable implications from Matthew 24-25. As the disciples and Jesus interact about the destruction about the temple, he says things like this:

  • Watch out that no one deceives you about signs of Jesus’ return (24:4)

  • See that you are not alarmed…the end is not yet (24:6)

  • The one who endures to the end will be delivered (24:13)

  • If anyone tells you ‘Look, here is the Messiah’… do not believe it (24:23)

  • Take note of what Jesus is saying here [his coming will be very apparent] (24:25)

  • Learn the parable of the fig tree: seeing these things means the end is near (24:32-34)

  • Be alert (24:42), Know this (24:43), Be ready (24:44)

  • Faithful is the one… (24:45)

  • …the master who finds the slave working… (24:46)

  • The virgins who were ready for the bridegroom’s return went in with him to the wedding banquet. Those not ready were not welcome (25:10)

  • Therefore, be alert, because you don’t know either the day or the hour of the master’s return (25:13)

  • Invest God’s gifts: The faithful are those who invest their talents God gave them (25:14-30)

  • Invest in: the needy, hungry, thirsty, stranger, sick, naked, prisoners (25:35-36)

Conclusion: The Eternal Weight of Our Craft

Allow this passage to sink in.

Those who bury their gifts, who do not use them to serve the “least of these” will be sent to the furnace of Hell, forever.

Matthew Taylor
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