Tag Archives: creativity
In the beginning, God created … The first words of the Bible reveal a God who is at heart a Creator. He is a painter, potter, and performer. He hovered over His easel, raised His brush, and the dark canvas exploded in a big bang of Technicolor. He took a formless lump of clay, spun it on His orbitary…..
In the past, artists lived comfortably in a world which they knew was created and sustained by a benevolent, creative, and almighty God. They saw evidence of His divine imagination everywhere and couldn’t help but try and capture it in paint, song, and in the written word. Sadly the “acidity of modernism” burned off the spiritual realm and left nothing to replace it but charred neuro-chemicals. Maybe the artistic angst we see so frequently played out on our cultural stage…..
The very first thing we find out about God in the Bible is that He is creative. In a stunning revelation, we are introduced to a God that makes His artistic immaterial thought a physical reality through speech. I think we too often pass by the words, “And God said,” failing to recognize just how significant they are. We are bathed…..
