Greetings,
I just finished about four weeks of vacation and it was a lot of fun. I had the opportunity to do many things that I enjoy doing but rarely find time to do. One of the things I love is to paint and create art. I don’t do it often but when I do I lose all track of time and it fills my tank. I also really enjoy writing music I have a lot of songs that I have written and so I spent some time doing a rough recording of them.
Creation is built into us as image bearers of God. We were created by a loving God who made us in His image and therefore we are creative beings. Think about your life and what you like to create. How do you reflect the image of God in your work or hobbies? My guess is that if you think about it there will be something that you do that is creative and that is a general God given grace to all humanity.
I was thinking about some of the most famous songs ever written and many of them are written by non believers. They are so creative, but many of them are not using their God given gift of creation to honor very God that gave them that gift--some even curse Him in their creation!
How crazy is it that humans can use the very thing that makes us like God to creatively dismiss God? Romans 1:20 explains that “...since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”
We are fully capable of seeing that there is a creator God and that He cares for humanity. He cares about science and math, art and history, social issues and economic issues; He cares about art and aesthetics. He even cares about the many little bugs and creatures that make ecosystems thrive. Yet in our God given creativity, humanity has replaced a loving, gracious God with humanism, atheism and agnosticism.
It feels like a parent giving a child an art set and then watching that child use the art set to make a picture of how he received the art set magically without any intervention from the parent. Even though he knows better, the stubborn child sticks to that story to the end of his life.
I was thinking about some of the most famous songs ever written and many of them are written by non believers. They are so creative, but many of them are not using their God given gift of creation to honor very God that gave them that gift--some even curse Him in their creation!
How crazy is it that humans can use the very thing that makes us like God to creatively dismiss God? Romans 1:20 explains that “...since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”
We are fully capable of seeing that there is a creator God and that He cares for humanity. He cares about science and math, art and history, social issues and economic issues; He cares about art and aesthetics. He even cares about the many little bugs and creatures that make ecosystems thrive. Yet in our God given creativity, humanity has replaced a loving, gracious God with humanism, atheism and agnosticism.
It feels like a parent giving a child an art set and then watching that child use the art set to make a picture of how he received the art set magically without any intervention from the parent. Even though he knows better, the stubborn child sticks to that story to the end of his life.
Praise God that He is a loving creator who loves us all so deeply that He would love us even though we hated Him. What a patient and loving God we serve!
Love ya,
Chris
