Creating
Do you consider yourself an artist? Do you create? How do you view what you have made?
I know when I create something, I usually treasure it because it’s uniquely mine. It’s special. I spend time considering shape, color, word selections, presentation, usefulness, or other. I want it to be something great because I have put my time, talents and effort into it. Look at me, I’ve done something wonderful. Can you admire it?
Whoever creates something and then walks away to leave it to its fate? Everyone loves what they have created and are proud of it. They treasure it. They don’t just toss it somewhere.
When I produce something, then it is a part of me. How do you view your creations?
Considering
If you had fashioned something that you were proud of and loved, what would it be like if someone trashed it? What if it somehow turned evil? If it didn’t live up to the promises you intended for it?
What if the thing you intended for good, for beauty, for nourishment became ugly? Would you pull out all the stops to fix it?
Or would you just walk away and separate yourself from what you had made and let the chips fall where they may?
If it was your own brain child, wouldn’t you make every effort to redeem what was broken in your creation?
Caring
Wherever did we get the idea that God is aloof and apart from this world that He created? What a crazy notion. Yet, people think it all the time.
If we are made in God’s image—and the Bible says we are—then God could no longer walk away from us, His handiwork, than we can walk away from our own inventions.
Jesus came to show us the Father’s heart of caring for us. He walked and talked with His creations. He came to stop evil and claim back His own belongings from the thief who stole and tarnished what God had called good.
Just like us, God was proud of what He had made. I think He still is. We are all unique. He is intimately interested in the development of every one of us. Why else would He go to such lengths to claim us back, then and now?
I’m very glad He cares so much. What about you?
“Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good” Genesis 1:31a.
It is comforting to know that our God is not a hands-off kind of God. I love to think of Him as an involved Daddy…the kind that gives guidance, provision and protection, but still allows me to be me. And when I make mistakes, and I make a lot of them, He allows me to learn my lessons, but still encourages and cheers me on. He teaches me how to take the lessons that I’ve learned, and become a better, more compassionate person. Does God care about what He has created? Oh, yes! He does!