God displays His nature by creating. When we slow down and allow our senses to become tuned into God through His creation, we can capture His beauty and marvel in the finite details and landscapes He’s designed. When you take a close-up look at how each butterfly, flower, bird, and animal is distinctly different from all its other types, only God could create such beauty and diversity. Each part of His creation points us back to Him.
When God created His prize possession, His beloved people, and made us in His image, He designed us to display His nature to the world. Created in God’s love, our true nature is to love. We get to represent God as He creates in and through us. Our lives are creative expressions of God waiting to be discovered by those who have eyes to see the sacred and holy in our simple and common expressions.
As God helps us realize who He is and who we are in relationship to Him, the Holy Spirit draws us into a personal and loving relationship with Him. When we realize that we are God’s beloved sons and daughters, and He longs to adopt into His family, In Christ we can find our true identity, real worth, true family, and home.
Although we’re quite skilled at messing things up and distorting everything that God uniquely designed for His glory, God is a redemptive God. God displayed His incredible love for us by sacrificing His Son, Jesus Christ, so that we can be forgiven, healed, and whole. Regardless of our age and background, God relentlessly pursue each person in love to redeem us, restore us, and to transform us into His likeness.
As I’ve shared my deepest beliefs and convictions about our origin and God’s purposeful creativity, it’s very important that we don’t go off the deep end and worship the creation instead of worshiping our Creator. Everywhere we look we can find expressions of God and His creativity. But around each corner, we can become fascinated and preoccupied and distracted and completely lose sight of God. We can become enamored by our own creative interests and leave God out. We can make an idol of anything we or others create. The more skilled we become at what God made us to create with our lives, the easier it can become to forget our Creator. When we do, we become distractors and distortionists instead of beautiful representations of God.
Instead of fixating on the distractors or distortions, let’s give glory to God through our creativity. Musicians can compose songs with lyrics and rhythms that invite people to encounter and to worship the living God. The sounds and songs of creation are designed to make God known. Each artist may uniquely create what’s missing and needed in the world and reflect God and make the world a better place to live. Leaders in our world, government, businesses, churches, schools, and homes have a God-given privilege to invite people into creative contexts where lives are shaped and Christ can be made known. Athletes can play and train and compete in ways to put a smile on God’s face when we’re playing for God’s glory. When workers work heartily because we’re given the privilege of working for God and sharing our faith in the workplace, the workplace can become a mission field and a sanctuary.
What you create, bake, cook, design, draw, compose, sing, develop, and build with your life can become a wonderful expression of God’s creativity. Don’t try to create what someone else is creating with their life. Be different. Create what is missing and needed in the world by being you. As you allow God to take what seems wrong with you, or different about you, and use it to transform you into His likeness, everything He’s given you and brought you through become creative tools in the Master’s hand.
