God's Beauty Seen in His Creative Ones!

(Posted January 2, 2007 in one of my other blogs.)

As I've meditated on this prayer for the past day or so, my thoughts go particularly to God's creative people. I'm reminded that when He created the world, He made everything good and beautiful. There was nothing in the world that was not perfect. As Genesis says, "God saw all He had made and it was very good." (Gen 1:31a, NIV)

However, because of man's sin, we all know it didn't stay that way. The world became a twisted place, and beauty began to vanish. When God made man, He made him in His own image.... and that too has become tainted. Man became ugly, and no longer reflected God's beauty.

Yet God calls His people, those who have been recreated in Christ, to be mirrors of His glory and of His beauty. Through Christ, we have been recreated in His own image.

We all have many different gifts and talents, and in each of them we display something of the Father's image. However, here, I wish to share with those who are blessed with the creative gifts, displaying that side of God, our creator. It is our place to bring back some beauty to this dark, twisted and ugly world.

We are the beautiful ones!!... and we see the beauty around us!! So let us share that beauty with those who do not see what we see.

"Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven." (Matthew 5:16, NIV)

May we not use our gifts for our own glory, but may God be glorified in all we do!