Author of Creativity

Genesis 1:1-3, Psalm 139:13-16

At the start, the earth was formless.  It had no shape.  The word “void” speaks to complete emptiness.  Another phrase that might evoke the same imagery is “the vacuum of space.”  There was no order of things.  The language “darkness over the deep” describes both an absence of light and order.  It was an abyss of chaos.  Even the word “waters” used is the best way to describe not necessarily liquids, but something shapeless and unstable.  Unlike a marble slab that waits for a sculptor to chisel away the excess to reveal the sculpture inside, the universe was a blank emptiness, lacking shape or order.  It stood as the darkest canvas, prepared for God to add His medium.
God’s creativity is boundless.  Throughout each day God would layer His canvas with different environments.  In succession, he would populate each environment with diverse and abundant life.  Just as the stars God placed in the sky, every domain stands with countless signs and symbols of God’s character.  Ultimately, from the wheat field to the ocean’s marine life tells the story of Jesus Christ.
Humanity was an integral part of God’s creation.  After forming man in His image from the dust of the ground, God gave Adam life by breathing into him.  God’s breath would carry with it a desire and capacity to imagine and create.  It is an attribute that comes from God.  God used His creativity to express Himself, and express His son Jesus Christ.  As believers, made alive by what Jesus has done, and set apart and sanctified by His blood, our creativity and imagination should produce a self-expression of Godliness and sanctification.  As faith wells up from inside, the Holy Spirit guides us in an outpouring of expression, an expression that glorifies God.  Today may you create and imagine, may the Holy Spirit inspire in you a new song that tells of the love of God, and witnesses to the glory of Jesus Christ.