YOU ARE INVITED TO BE GOD’S CREATIVE PARTNER

“No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you” (John 15:15).

Without true intimacy, a person can never really discover the dreams and desires of their partner. This is the relationship God is calling you to. He birthed you into His Kingdom because He wanted you to be His child. Everything He enjoys with Jesus He wants to enjoy with you. He wants you to be so close to Him that your heart and His heart become one. You get to be the object of His joy as He progressively discloses His dreams to you.

He wants you to feel His delight as your motive to create with Him. He wants His joy to be your strength. You get to playfully celebrate a relationship with Him while He shares His power to create with you. An invitation is waiting; He has invited you to be His creative partner, in which your agreement with His will in heaven brings His will into reality on earth.

Abraham was God’s creative partner. We can see God’s desire for creative partnership with man as we consider His interaction with notable Bible characters.

The Lord sovereignly called Abraham into covenant with Himself. God promised Abraham that through him all the nations of the earth would be blessed. But Abraham was called to more than to only bless nations. God invited Abraham to be His creative partner.

In the New Testament, Abraham is called the “friend of God” (James 2:23). Friendship with God transformed Abraham; he became unwilling to settle for anything less in life than what God was capable of building. Friendship with God removes a person’s desire to build something without God. God’s plans are more majestic than man’s plans, and so a friend of God becomes inspired by God’s dreams. Abraham realized that God’s dream was bigger and more wonderful than anything he could implement on his own. He was willing to leave all that was familiar on a quest for a city that was not built by man’s plans, agendas, or ambition. Abraham “waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God” (Hebrews 11:10).

As God’s creative partner, Abraham’s role seems passive, but it really wasn’t. As the “father of faith,” Abraham’s role in his partnership with God was to believe God, be patient and let God do the work.

Like Abraham, God calls you His friend. In John 15:13-15, Jesus calls us His friends three times! “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you” (John 15:15).

A friend is not just a worker for God; he is a partner with God. A friend of God knows what God is doing. Jesus does not leave us ignorant, because He is disclosing His plans to us. The disclosure of God’s plans in the context of intimacy is exactly like the relationship Jesus has always enjoyed with His Father (Proverbs 8:29-31). Jesus gets close to His Dad, and His Dad shows him really amazing stuff. We get close to Jesus and reveals to us what His Father has shown Him! We get to be God’s friends!

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