In the beginning...

God is really big. He can do lots and lots of things, and if I really had the time and ambition I am sure I could come up with blog after blog, year after year writing about all the great things God is and does, but today I want to write about an aspect of God that I think people sometimes forget about.

So lets start at the beginning.

"In the beginning..." (just in case someone has not picked up a bible lately this particular passage can be found toward the front of the book, usually shortly after the table of contents but before you get to the big number "2".) Isn't it novel that a book about so many great and wonderful things starts with "in the beginning." That basically means before anything else. And I think it leads nicely to the next part that simply states "...God..."

Before anything else. Before life, before sin, before all the things that we so often find our identity and purpose in, there was God. Before our brilliant piano concerto, before our best selling novel, before our brilliant stroke of original genius, there was God. He is the author. And here is why.

"...created..."

For some reason the first thing that an infinite God wants to reveal about Himself, before He tells us He is a just God, before He tells us He is a loving God, before He tells us He is a holy God, He tells us He is a creator. Now do not get me wrong. I am not trying to say that this is the most important aspect of who God is, or that it makes creativity something special that deserves a place of more honor than something else. I simply want to point out that I think God puts more emphasis on creativity in His kingdom than we do.

But this is not some open invitation to just start creating whatever fills our heads. Now we have to look at the last part of the sentence "...the heavens and the earth." God created with a purpose and what He created had a purpose. All the water, all the trees, all the animals, all the people were created for one purpose. To glorify Him. Because He deserves it.

We have been given the ability to create. We have been given the capacity to imagine. Why would we want to do it for any other reason than to glorify Him?