Rock Stars and Artists

Kids want to be rock stars because they want to hear applause and screams about how great they are. They have to think up silly poems to sing so they have something to sing.

Real artists have worked long and hard to gain the skills needed to be able to speak through music or paint or ink or clay or steel. They have something to say, and they need to master a medium so they can speak it in an effective or creative way.

You already have the job of being daughter or son of Yahweh, the Commander of the Hosts of Heaven. You don’t have to work to keep it any more than you had to work to get it. You really should live to prove it, though. Let your identity be the connector between the work He has ordained you to accomplish and the burden He has given you to endure the preparation and practice and long days and short nights and fears and insults and failures and lack of recognition and you can make the rest of that list.

Who you are should empower why you are to the end that the Spirit empowers you to succeed.

Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus,
who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God
as something to be used for His own advantage.
Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave,
taking on the likeness of men.
And when He had come as a man in His external form,
He humbled Himself by becoming obedient
to the point of death—even to death on a cross.
For this reason God also highly exalted Him
and gave Him the name that is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow—
of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth—
and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to will and to act for His good purpose.
(Philippians 2:5-13 HCSB ©®)