God Created

The word genesis means, beginning. At the inception of scripture we find that God is busy doing what He does best, creating. A matter of fact, we call the first several chapters of the Bible the Creation Story. Creativity was so important that you discover that the fifth word that is found in the Bible is the word created, In the beginning God created! So, while thinking about all of this it makes me wonder, How come so much of what we do is mundane and not creative. Why do we enjoin ourselves so willingly to old patterns of thinking and question new creative techniques? I believe that Christians ought to be the most creative people that you can find, for the word Christian itself means Christ Like and everything that God does is a creative and a redemptive work. One avenue of thinking that we convince ourselves of unfortunately is that God is creative, but as a follower of Christ we are not to be creative, we leave that up to God, yet when we look at the scriptures we discover that God wanted to engrain creativity into mankind. The way that God would introduce Adam to valuing creativity was in the command for Adam to name all of the Animal Kingdom. Can you imagine what intense creativity it must have taken for Adam to come up with fitting names for all of the species that God had created? So, in thinking about this year let me begin where God began, Creating! What routines have I fallen into that I have lacked the energy to evaluate to see if there is a creative and new method that can be achieved with better results. Have I pushed my paradigm to think of a different angle to the same problem that I am dealing with, or could it even be possible that I have neglected creativity, and so therefore my thinking is the problem itself! Let this be a year creating and not tearing down! Let me stretch my thinking out of old routine things and allow this to be the year where all things become new.