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Posted by: Leah Gartner, Director of Marketing and Events | Monday, July 21st, 2025 (12:00am)

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.—Genesis 1:1-3

I am amazed with the mind of an artist. What others would see as useless and formless, to the artist, it is endless possibility and potential. They approach a piece of marble and see “the David” or stand under the vast blank ceiling of the Sistine chapel and see God touching Adam's hand. An artist paints in symphonies and hears music no instrument has ever played, and they dream of worlds on the other side of the wardrobe where coats become a forest and children conquer evil. That is what God saw “in the beginning,” a blank page just waiting for the greatest story ever told.  

The Holy Spirit hovered in anticipation…the Word waiting to spring into creative action.

Then God said “let there be...” Three little words that would change everything. 

Out of God’s immeasurable, powerful, and creative mind, He spoke. Out of nothing stars appeared, trillions of them, forming galaxies and constellations millions of light years away to “mark off the seasons, days and years.” Celestial complexities that our finite minds cannot even begin to fathom after thousands of years gazing up at them, all to give us a calendar.  

At the sound of His voice creatures of every kind filled the earth. Birds of vibrant color, zebras, lions, the mighty T-Rex, and the woolly mammoth. Working in every medium and design; feathers, fur, scales, and hides, covering them with stripes, spots, and everything in between. All created to fit perfectly in their environment, to thrive and produce after their own kind a perpetuating cycle of life and beauty.  

The Word spoke and called forth life in the depths of the ocean. From the tiniest crustacean to the blue whale. Fish that swim together by the hundreds in their own rhythm, to a fish that can catch its prey with a built-in lure. God’s creativity is so limitless that man hasn’t even seen half of the creatures held in the ocean’s depths. But He doesn’t need us to see them. He created them because He could.  

What a scene! This once blank space, now teaming with life. A place that looked empty and meaningless with just a few words spoken from the Creator, now filled with beauty and purpose. 

Then God changed the pattern. This time He did not say let there be man, He said “let us make man.” He paused to take His time, to sculpt and form something with a personal touch. He put His holy hands in the dust and with them designed humanity. All the created world was just setting the stage for his most prized piece, the pinnacle, the crescendo! For this design was different; it would bare the very image of the artist Himself. But God did not stop there. Not only would He form us with his own hands, God would make His breath our breath and transfer a piece of His life to start our life.   

His beautiful signature imprinted onto every soul.  

What then can I do but love a creator like that? Someone who knows every part of me, every hair on my head, every step I take and will take? He knows every gift I possess because he gave it, every struggle I face and every failure He will help lift me up from. And He knows not only me but every person that lives and breathes His breath, every person that ever was and ever will be. It seems so obvious but it isn't, because sin taints our vision, puts scales on our eyes. We believe the lie that somehow we made ourselves. We worship the created world or things our own hands have made. We put trust in ourselves and our own creations to “save us.”

Thankfully God is not taken by surprise. He knew when He breathed that breath that we would fall, that we would sin and believe lies. God knew what would need to be done to give us life again.  

Jesus would make our flesh His Flesh. Give His life to renew our life. 

Transfer our sin to Him who had no sin to bring those who believed eternal life with Him. 

Now we follow the Word, Jesus, as He orders our steps and gives our lives beauty and purpose. We continue to lean into the artist, who created every detail and knows us with a depth we could never understand. With every brush stroke and with every shade that passes each day He is finishing His masterpiece.  

What then can we do but Love a creator like that? 

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