God Vs. Creativity

Romans 1:22-25

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

In my last post I had mentioned that if you were creative you would have a bigger bull’s-eye on your back because the enemy knows the influence you have on many people with your creation. I believe this with everything inside me. I also mentioned that nothing is more exciting for me than to see an idea of mine come to life.

There is something we need to watch out for. As exciting as it is to see something you made, that you put together, to see your “baby” grow up and become a man, there is always the tendency to worship the creation over the Creator. This is a way in which Satan can detour our vision for worshipping God.

Now this goes two ways: 1) We can go ahead and take all of the glory for ourselves and think that WE created the creation ourselves. 2) We can worship the actual creation, the object, because we ourselves created it. It’s as if we were the parent and that thing would be our child and we love it and we become obsessed with it.

In Genesis 1 God created everything. It was good. God created man and it was very good. God created our creativity and us. If we are creative it is because God made us that way.

We are creative because God is the ultimate Creator.

If God was not creative then we would not be creative. If you don’t think God is creative, look at people, their personalities, look at the animals, look at nature. It’s amazing.

So when we create something, does all the glory really go to us? Yes, we physically came up with the idea and made it but we are creative because God is the ultimate Creator.

In Exodus, when Moses was up on the mountain talking to God, the people built a Golden Calf to worship. They worshiped the creation and took their eyes off of God. When we create something, are we so focused on what we created that we lose focus on the one who gave us ability to create?

Worship the Creator and not the creation. We don’t deserve the glory, God does. This is just one way for Satan to make us lose focus on what we are doing and whom we are doing it for.

God is the true Creator.