Addicted…It’s Not What You Think

I have to be honest, I binge watch competition shows. But not just any competition shows, but anything where people create.

I can sit for hours and watch Top Chef or The Great British Baking Show. Do I like to cook? Not really. But something in those shows draw me in.

Another strange addiction is watching fashion competition shows. Do I like fashion? Nope. I don’t like sewing. I don’t look at magazines. I’m a blue jeans and t shirt guy. I really have no clue why these type of shows fascinates me…but they do.

But it’s not just cooking or fashion, I could watch someone paint or whittle a chair out of oak or even sculpt the David out of macaroni.

So why do these type of shows have me begging for me?

I think God instills in each one of us a yearning to create. God is a creating God. He created everything we see and He did it flawlessly and perfectly.

I can watch a baking show and look in awe at their delicious dish, but God created the ingredients. He created the fields of wavy grain, the trees of coconut balls, the vines of juicy grapes. He created the things we get to use to create something we envision and dream up.

I wonder how God feels when He sees His creation create things using His other creations?

I hope He smiles.

We are to be imitators of God. What better way to imitate a creative God but finding ways to create.

I think that is why I love these creative competition shows because the contestants take a bag of flour, or a yard of green fabric or a plank of wood and see beyond the ordinary,

I wonder if that is what God sees in us?

So often we feel like a useless bag of flour that taste nasty by itself. Or we feel ugly in our current state of dingy rags. Or we feel like life has passed us by and we are left with just being something no one wanted.

But God sees so much more.

He sees a masterpiece waiting to be cut out. He sees a breathtaking piece ready to be chiseled. He sees the best in us when we can’t see anything good at all.

What are you creating in life? Are you using your pieces God has given you to sulk or mourn? Or are you using them to stitch them together to form a quilt that can be seen and used by another?

What if your purpose it to inspire someone else to find their purpose? What if we are a group of unknown creators standing on the edge of creation bliss? But what if you don’t look over the edge. What if your fear passed down from your parents is the same fear you will pass down to your children?

It’s time to stop the cycle of not being good enough. It’s time to break the bondage of staying in the mold. It’s time to embrace the power of a creative God that is begging you to create with Him.

So what is He calling you to create?

Creations are not all tangible items. Maybe He’s begging you to create an encouraging space to lift up others. Maybe He’s calling you to take a step of faith and serve in some capacity. Maybe He’s screaming for you to love yourself the way He loves you.

But it starts with creating that idea that you are more than you think you are.

I wish we could see what God sees when He looks at us. I wish we could see the proud joy, the unmistakeable beauty, the heavenly perfection, the limitless potential, and the unbelievable dreams ahead.

But sadly, we don’t see any of that through the eyes God created. We just see a sad reflection of someone we used to like.

But it’s time to change all that!

God loves you! He really does!

I wish you could take a moment and try to pretend what God was thinking and looking like as He thought of you for the first time. As He pinched your dimples in, as He brushed your hair out of your eyes, as He traced His finger along your lips.

You are not an accident formed by strands of DNA.

You were fearfully and wonderfully made by a creator who loves you.

So, love yourself. He already does and He doesn’t make any mistakes.

And then maybe you can dream a little more of what God is calling you to create. I bet it is amazing!

Peace

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