Created to Create

Anything you've ever created has already been created. When, through instinct or a studied-hand (or both), we create art in its various forms it has come from an urging inside us. This urging, or inspiration, can come from seeing a garden filled with vivid colors, the blue upon blue found in the sea, or even from Pinterest via your phone screen.

But see, anything you've ever created has already been created. That water color painting of garden flowers?

The flowers formed by His hands.

That powerful Instagram photo of the rushing waves?

The waves called to the shore by His voice.

So in our creating we are really only re-creating what He has done.

And this re-creation is a very fine and good act of worship. The desire to take pretty pictures, draw pretty landscapes, and write pretty words is an urge God had, too.

Genesis 1:26 says that after God created the earth and everything in it He said, "Let us make man in Our image and in Our likeness." Or the Message version says, "Let us make human beings to reflect Our nature."

He created us in His very nature - hands, feet, arms. and legs. Yes. But also laughter, compassion, joy, and the desire to create, to manipulate with our hands. In our gardens, in our kitchens, in our sewing rooms, in our journals, with our saws and hammers. In our loving touches.

The urge to create comes from our Creator. The still, small Voice that calls you to put pen to paper, to put voice to song. That Voice is the very One that spoke you into being.

The Creator calling His creation to create.

Let's worship Him in all we do with our hands.

Lord, may it be so.

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