The Onymous November-December 2013, issue 7 | Page 7

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Issue 7 November-December 2013

things. Whatever you have
learned or received from me, or
seen in me – put it into practice.
And the God of peace will be
with you.”
That is a direct command from
God for us to use our creative
talents and to surround ourselves in art. “Put it into practice.” That’s pretty simple. God
made us creative for our own
good.

God is an artist
God is an artist. “Through him
all things were made; without
him nothing was made that has
been made.” (John 1:3.) God is
someone with a fantastic, massive personality and imagination. One of his many qualities is
that he absolutely loves to create. In fact, you could say that
it’s one of his hobbies.
That’s exactly why we love to
create too.
“So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God he
created him, male and female he
created them.” (Genesis 1:27.)
Every single good quality in a
person’s personality is an itsybitsy reflection of God’s personality. Little reflections of him are

in every single human there ever
was, is, or will be. That’s what it
means to be made in his image.
Right after God finished creating
everything, he said it was very
good (Genesis 1:31). That includes humans. Even though sin
entered the world, we are still
made in his image. And that’s
quite something as the person
who said that about us is the
creator of everything.
We are creative artists by nature
because God is a creative artist.

Art inspired by God
God loves it when we create
things that glorify him. He made
us so that we can love and glorify him. Expressing our love for
him using our creativity is partly
what we were made for. Nothing we can do can ever change
who God is or his abounding
love for us, but we can still affect
him emotionally. Our ability to
experience emotions are a small
reflection of God’s ability to experience emotions. Again, it’s no
accident. He’s not some fake god
made of wood sitting somewhere; he’s alive and real, and
has tremendous emotions. God
can feel sad, angry, and happy.
And he loves us despite any-