Artist-God

What is the first thing we know about God? What is the first thing we learn of him in Scriptures? Flip open the Bible and look for yourself. In the Beginning, God CREATED....

God by His very awesome nature creates and cares for. God, creator of marvelous creation.

I like watching those shows on the discovery channel with anthropologists explaining the origins of man. They love to explain a key difference between human beings and the rest of the animal world. It is their inextinguishable expressive nature that sets Cro-Magnon man apart from everything else. Man makes art. Man adorns his body. Man makes beautiful things.

So, let us look at Genesis 1:27.

God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

If we are made in the image of God, who by His very nature is the creator, then what else would separate us from the rest of creation than an innate artistic nature? It is who we are. We have coded into our bodies the desire, the inescapable urge to rise up in expressive worship and offer praise to our God. There will come the day when every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord. Why wait?

Use your expressive nature today to create an offering to God!

We will be sharing some artwork by my bible study youth in the comments area.

Jesus Rising
by Steven Howard