Born to be Creative

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them. - Genesis 1:27

We were made in God's image. Think for a moment...

We were created AFTER God made everything. We were created special and unique by him! God likes different. 

When God created the heavens and the earth, he made it perfect. He was 
creative in the way he made it. 

Not one single tree was exactly the same. Each and every animal was unique. No two were the exact same. When God made man, he made the male first. 

He continued to create another one, but this time female. He made the female out of the image of the man, but yet they were different. 

Each were created for a different purpose to be used by God. 

Life was perfect. Literally. God created us perfect! He created us to be imitators of him. Since he was creative when he made the world, are we supposed to be creative? 


God wasn't afraid that someone would not like something that he CREATED.
He didn't care. He gave us the choice to accept him and his creativity or not.
He created the world for us to enjoy, not to make us unhappy.  

Why are we so scared to be creative and different? 

After God made Adam and Eve, the first humans, he gave them rule over everything on earth. It was their job to take care of it and everything in it. 

God gave them their very own Garden, in which he told, "You may eat off of any tree in the garden, but off of the tree in the middle of the garden you must not eat." 

One tree. 

Temptation is a risky thing. Eve was tempted in the garden to eat from the one tree that God said don't eat. 

That's how the devil works. He takes both strengths and our weaknesses to tempt us into the web of sin. 

Eve gave into temptation. 

She ate from the one tree. From that first bite of fruit, the world was no longer perfect and never would be again. 

Sin came in, and destroyed God's perfect world that he made so creatively. 
Destructively crushing creativity, sin entered. 

Sin isn't the world, but it is in it. 

The world today isn't very welcoming to creative people. The devil likes to use other people to try to destroy creativity and wants everyone to be the same following him instead of God. 

I do know something. 

God LOVES every single person. He loves creative people. He loves different people with opinions. He loves it most when we use our differences to work together for the glory of Him. 

Creativity is good.

Don't let your fear of failure rule out your creativity. 

Dare yourself to live differently. Be creative. 

We were born in the image of God. Born for creativity. Born different from every else. Just like there is no tree exactly alike and no animal exactly the same, we are all different. We have our own unique twists on life. 

We are meant to do something the same, though. 

We are meant to glorify our Creator, Lord Jesus Christ, in everything we do. 
Creatively is how God made us. He made us. We just need to glorify him 

We glorify with using our creative personality for God.

How are we supposed to use our personalities if we are scared about other peoples' opinions? 

We need to let our faith in God be bigger than our fear of failure and not meeting the standard. 


Dare yourself. 

Dare yourself to live a different life than others live. 

Will you take that dare? Will you train yourself to use your creative talents that God has given you? 

God's opinion is the only opinion that matters. You just need to glorify him. As long as you are using your God-given abilities and talents, he is being glorified. He is proud of you for taking that dare. The dare to live a different life and follow Him.