A Cool Revelation About God I Had Tonight

I had a cool revelation of God's character tonight regarding His love of creativity. There can be no actual infinite constructs in the universe he created, so He COULD have created literally everything (every single permutation of every object and idea, coexisting in reality at once...whoa) in the beginning, and just let us spend our lives enjoying it. Every possible combination of atoms, simultaneously, in one massive universe.

However, He soooo wanted us to enjoy the ability to create that He left the majority of possible realities open to us. So instead of creating every single possible poem Himself, He let us INVENT poetry, and all it's different styles and every kind of poem possible within each style. Instead of painting every single possible painting Himself, He let us INVENT painting, and He let us paint whatever we wanted, no matter how sucky it would end up being. Instead of coding every single computer program for us in every single possible coding language, He let us INVENT coding and computers and all the possibilities that brings.


God LOVES our creativity. And because He made the universe so massive, as far as our minds can comprehend, we might as well have infinite possibilities of things to create JUST HERE ON THIS PLANET. Imagine when we invent sustainable space travel, and all the new things we'll get to play with on other planets!

He could have given us it all. Instead, he left our reality basically a blank slate for us to play with. So write your poems, paint your pictures, and code you programs. God knows all the things you could do with your passions and talents, and yeah, He could do them better. Obviously. But would a proud parent rather hang their own art work on the fridge, or the crappy doodles of their son or daughter?

We are created in God's image, and He is endlessly creative. So that means we are all reflections of certain aspects of God's creativity. That's a cool thought, huh? Just because nobody appreciated your postmodernist free-verse spoken word jamboree doesn't mean it has no value, because if it is an extension of your creative process, it is therefore an extension of the character of God. So cheer up.

So that was where MY brain went when we read Genesis 1 tonight. I recommend reading it and contemplating what it says about who God is. There's a lot to pull from just one page of material.

Proverbs 25:2 - "It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out." 

God's Blessings,
Chris