In The Image of God

God has many attributes. The one that is most obvious is that God creates. The statement of "Let there be light" is simple, but the more we know, the more interesting and complex the creation becomes. Job had this to say about God in chapter 26: 

Err ... Wrong Creation Story! He spreads the skies over unformed space,

    hangs the earth out in empty space.

He pours water into cumulus cloud-bags

    and the bags don’t burst.

He makes the moon wax and wane,

    putting it through its phases.

He draws the horizon out over the ocean,

    sets a boundary between light and darkness.

Thunder crashes and rumbles in the skies.

    Listen! It’s God raising his voice!

By his power he stills sea storms,

    by his wisdom he tames sea monsters.

With one breath he clears the sky,

    with one finger he crushes the sea serpent.

And this is only the beginning,

    a mere whisper of his rule.

    Whatever would we do if he really raised his voice!”

The more one contemplates the creation and how everything fits together, the more one appreciates the creativity of the Master Builder.  We need to stand in awe. No, that is not right--we need to fall in awe before the creativity of the Creator.  

But even though that is true, yet the creation hymn reveals to us something worth meditation.  

26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

As the Apostle Paul said quoting the Greek poet, "We are God's offspring." We are made in God's image. We have a job to do. We are creators, or at least we are designed to be creators as we are made in the image of the ultimate Creator. I have been meditating on this, and when I do I ask myself a question,"What have I created?" I do not get the answer I want when I honestly answer this question. 

To a degree we create the world we live in. As the proverb attributed to Goethe says, "If everyone swept in front of his own door, the whole world would be clean." 

So let me boldly ask you, "What have you created?"