Where Did All This Creativity Come From?

My family once left me behind staring at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Such creativity entrances me. Painters. Musicians. Writers. Architects. Cabinet makers. Welders. Poets. Inventors. And yes, even app designers. Whenever we wander the corridors of history, we discover astounding creativity. And in our day—if we look—we discover creativity bursting out all over even in a good restaurant, an occasional TV show, or a phone app. Where did all this creativity come from?

We wander down a country road. We discover trilliums and hepaticas, ferns and buttercups, giant pines and ancient maples. We park along a dark road and gaze up at a billion stars before the rising moon hides their shimmer. We pause, astonished on a beach, as we gaze down at the variety of shells. We climb a hill, sit on a rock, and our mouths fall open at the sight of hill after gauzy hill receding into the distance in a living Constable. We snorkel beneath the ocean’s surface and discover another world of amazing beauty. Or we lie on our tummies and part the grass beneath our eyes to find a tiny world of spiders and ants and who knows what. Where did all these created things come from?

The Creator smiles at our question. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.…God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day” (Gen. 1:1,31). “So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Gen. 1:27). God, the Creator of a universe full of beauty and order and wonder, created you and me in his image to think and reason—and create. We are men and women of worth and dignity because we bear the stamp of our origin within us. We are creative creatures because we take after our Father. And it was all good and fascinating because God is good and holy and pure and, yes, creative.

And within us he implanted principles (divine law) to guide us in how to keep everything good. He also gave us the ability to choose our way. (Rom. 2:14,15)

Of course, that was before the fall, but that’s another episode in this exploration of essential beliefs. So, let’s all go out and create: beautiful music and art, poems and pottery, beautiful lives and rich happy relationships. And when we find our creations marred, let’s return to the one who made us so he can help us remake them.

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