Can't Force Greatness

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

Sometimes the ideas just don't come like they usually do. Sometimes, you are going to come to a point where you are not going to be able to think of a single idea and it will be extremely frustrating thing.

I felt like that this morning when the Shift Students staff was trying to think of some event ideas for our “I <3 Night” (our invite night here at CCV). Usually ideas come to me naturally. It's what I do. It's part of my job description. We cant be creative all of the time on our own, we need to brainstorm with others.

The tendency will be just to go with the first idea you come up with and go off of that. It might be an idea that you are not too fond of in the first place but since it’s the only idea at the time, you can just force it into a great thing.

Good ideas will come if you force them. Great ideas will come when you develop them.

One of the great privileges I have here is that there is an incredible planning team. This team meets to plan out every service that we have. This group is amazing and talented. One thing we do is bounce ideas off of each other. This is a great way for ideas to formulate, you are able to talk through ideas, accept the constructive criticism, and actually start to develop a good idea into a great idea.

This is something the team here is great at. One person will have a few great ideas, but they will run out. A team of people can have endless great ideas, but you need to get over your own pride and be willing to go to your team and ask to bounce ideas off of them.

We just need to persevere through the dry spells. We can’t force great ideas but we can push through the dry spells with a team to develop the good ideas into great ones.

Proverbs 15:22

Plans fail for lack of counsel,
but with many advisers they succeed.