Are You an Artist?

Some of us in life are artists. We are the creative type and we live by inspiration.  We are taught early in childhood to draw inside the lines.  Think inside a box.  If you have a creative mind – you realize that you are never going to fit in with the crowd’s way of thinking.  Jesus clashed with the Pharisees on a regular basis.  It’s because the Pharisees were the rule followers and people pleasers.  Usually artists clash with those type of people.  The Pharisees followed the Old Testament down to the very small details.  I meet many Christians that are that way today ---follow the Old Testament or rules.

It is free thinking type people – your artists and musicians and basically going to clash with those who think inside the box.  They are the Steve Jobs of Apple, the entrepreneurs, creative writers, poets, musicians, comedians, philosophers like Plato, writers for screen plays, cartoonists..people like Walt Disney.

 

Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God. Romans 15:7

There is only one rule in the New Testament and that is love. 

“bear one another burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2

“if I give my body to be burned and have not love it profits me nothing” 1 Cor. 13:3
“Love does no harm to its neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.”  Roman 13:10

Obviously since people hated Jesus and wanted to kill him, they were not walking in love. As Christians we should adopt the same oath as a physician, “Do no harm.”

When Jesus and his disciples ate corn on the Sabbath, they complained that he was not following the Sabbath.  Jesus pointed out there was more important things than following rules and regulations and that he was God who created the Sabbath!  Just freaking aggravates me when Christian’s condemn others for trivial things when there are more important matters like people cutting people up and putting them in the refrigerator!

So when I see people who say “they follow the rules” I say, I am an artist.  If there is a line between insanity and sanity, I will step on the line.  I consider rules are there to bend and break.  It’s because some of us are “free radicals.”

Radicals (often referred to as free radicals) are atoms, molecules, or ions with unpaired electrons or an open shell configuration. Free radicals may have positive, negative, or zero charge. With some exceptions, these unpaired electrons cause radicals to be highly chemically reactive.

I have been a free thinker all my life.  I could not go along with people at junior high school for long who tried to get me to conform to their style of fashion so I rebelled.  I’m not going to be in a box when it comes to what a lot of people believe.  That is why God usually calls the “prophets” who are the non-conformist.  Another one is engineers.  Typically engineers will tell you like it is.  They just want to fix the problem.  My husband was an engineer so we got along well, we both are very direct people. Many times we will clash with ministers because we will tell a minister what we think.  Typically, ministers can be people-pleasers.  Although, I live on the westide, don’t like a large church, I go to Indian Creek, because the pastor does not seem to be a people–pleaser.  I know I’ll have a sermon that is not just “tickling my ears” to what I want to hear.  

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. 2 Timothy 2:4

The jobs I’ve enjoyed most is where I could use my creative computer skills and the manager appreciated it.  I find that even in computer graphics there are parameters and standards with colors on different monitors, layouts that are very confining.  I hated AutoCad because you had to put in coordinates for X,Y,Z where in 3D Studio Max animation you draw freehand.  Same way with Flash animation it is free hand drawing. 

My mother had me take piano lessons, but I hated piano because the instructor taught me to play by note.  It was not until I learned a few chords on guitar and could play by ear that I enjoyed playing the guitar.  Same with singing, it was learning a few notes and then singing by listening. I memorize scripture by listening to CDs.   Same way I learned to get A’s in college is listening to CDs of the terminology in class.  I tapped into my learning style which is hearing not reading.

My father was a genius in the sense that he had a photographic memory – he could memorize schematics from the Howard Sam’s manuals and then fix anything electronic.  My father was very “eccentric.”  He reminded me of the scientist on the Back to the Future movie, Doc Brown.

The world of forensics have allowed us to pin crimes on people by fingerprints, face recognition system, DNA testing, that no two people are alike.  Like no two snowflakes are alike.  God likes individuality.  Variety is the spice of life. 

"Larger, complex snowflakes are all different. The number of possible ways of making a complex snowflake is staggeringly large. To see just how much so, consider a simpler question -- how many ways can you arrange 15 books on your bookshelf? Well, there's 15 choices for the first book, 14 for the second, 13 for the third, etc. Multiply it out and there are over a trillion ways to arrange just 15 books. With a hundred books, the number of possible arrangements goes up to just under 10¹⁵⁸ (that's a 1 followed by 158 zeros). That number is about 10⁷⁰ times larger than the total number of atoms in the entire universe! Now when you look at a complex snow crystal, you can often pick out a hundred separate features if you look closely. Since all those features could have grown differently, or ended up in slightly different places, the math is similar to that with the books. Thus the number of ways to make a complex snow crystal is absolutely huge.

And thus it's unlikely that any two complex snow crystals, out of all those made over the entire history of the planet, have ever looked completely alike."

Most artists are hands-on people.  They are the people that like sculpting, my sister was an oil painter, drawer, and did house remodeling.  I have a couple of her oil paintings in my house after she passed away.  My brother is a musician.   Artists tend to be passionate about what they believe in.  We make good evangelists, because like sales, to sell a product, you have to believe in it.  As a teenager, I did embroidery, sewed my own clothes, crocheted and knitted besides several other type hands-on projects.

We see that David was an artist, he wrote Psalms.