An Examination of Creativity

I recently went to the Houston Fine Arts Museum. I have never been there before. What a truly incredible place that is. Amazing. It is vibrant, humming, exploding with creative energy. It is amazing what some people are capable of. With the stroke of a brush, with hand to clay or any number of media worlds are created, moments captured, emotion expressed in ways that surpass words. It humbles me to be in such a place. It made me worship. It inspired me to worship because I was in the midst of creation and I believe that we were created by a creator. And the Bible says that we were created by a creator in His image. Therefore, I believe that we were created by a creator to be creative. Creativity is fundamental to humanity. Some people feel that they are not creative at all, but in reality, we all create....something. We don't all create with the palate, the brush, with words, or song, with a camera or with clay, but we all create.

Creativity, in its essence is reflecting what is inside to the outside. It therefore naturally reflects the one that created it. Take an artist, for instance. You can look at a great work of art, hanging in a museum, and you can see what was inside the artist at the time it was created. You can see the artist's soul. The artist is in the art.

Can we then say that God, The Creator, The Artist, IS... ALL... AROUND... US....Everywhere and in everything. There is a writer named Rob Bell, he says that everything is spiritual and it is. There is significance in all of life. You can find God in the least expected places, if you're looking. He created it all and so He can be seen in everything. That is why, when we see a great piece of art, when we hear a song that stirs our heart, when we see an old married couple holding hands, when my daughters laugh, when I see a sunset, when I share a meal with my good friends, when my wife holds me close, in all these stolen moments and more I worship. I worship, not the creation, but the creator who spun it all into being. In the creation poem the writer states that each day when God was finished with the days creativity he looked at it and said, "it is good".

God, help me to look at all of life and see you, the creator, the artist and help it to stir me to worship.