The first way God introduces himself is as Creator. But I believe one of the favorite ways God loves to be known is as Father.

During Creation, God breathed life into Adam and soon after created Eve. Throughout Scripture, we see God as a good, adoring, attentive, boundlessly creative Father.

He creates. Then he fathers.

Most people, after achieving an unprecedented accomplishment, call it good. After all, there’s nowhere to go but down, so they stop while they’re ahead.

But not God. He is the continual Creator.

God is the uncreated Creator. He has always existed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There is no time when God wasn’t. He precedes everything . . . including time.

Let’s take a moment and savor a few of the things he created from nothing.

C.S. Lewis offers this imaginary, fantastical look at the world’s creation in The Magician’s Nephew from his masterful series The Chronicles of Narnia:

Imagine being with God at the birth of our universe…a witness to the first stars, the wildflowers, the stallions, the oceans, humpback whales, ladybugs, redwood trees, snowflakes, and waterfalls.

Do these creations strike you as the works of a hesitant creator?

If you want to know a creator, all you have to do is look at what and how they create.

You don’t have to be close friends with your favorite songwriter or best-selling author to know their worldviews. Just sample their art. It reveals far more about their beliefs than they may realize.

In a contest between love and fear, I sometimes doubt love is strong enough to win. I mean, love is great. But fear plays dirty. It’s a street brawler. And love is so . . . kind. I worry that in direct combat, love may get its tail kicked. Then what?

Thankfully, Scripture reminds me my concern is unfounded. Nothing is more powerful than love.

Everything you’ve been created to do will not happen in this lifetime. That’s not a negative or a limiting statement. It’s a reminder that our creativity doesn’t end when we pass from here to everlasting life.

The world has grown cold. Now more than ever, we need stories, songs, and art that warm our souls and light the way.

And yet this kind of creativity doesn’t happen on demand. It flows from the way we choose to live.

God is the boundless, limitless Creator.

We are his sons and daughters, invited to co-create with him. God is the boundless, limitless Creator.

We are his sons and daughters, invited to co-create with him.

God is the boundless, limitless Creator.

We are his sons and daughters, invited to co-create with him. God is the boundless, limitless Creator.

We are his sons and daughters, invited to co-create with him.

God is the boundless, limitless Creator.

We are his sons and daughters, invited to co-create with him.

Imagine your creativity as a sword created with God’s light. This weapon is our presence and our art fused together with God. When wielded properly, it pierces the darkness. It overcomes fear with love. It causes chaos to crumble.

Light is the first thing God created on day one of creation. There was no sun. Just his light. And it was good. But his light isn’t limited to the creation of this world.

Giving birth to a new idea—especially one that counters the chaos in this world—is beautiful, messy, and costly.

What we’re after is the truest creation, not the most comfort. It Is to relinquish all illusion of control to God….and allow him to lead.

There was an order to Creation. Specific things created in a specific order that mattered.

That shouldn’t surprise us, for God is a God of order.

The last few readings have focused on how to create in trueness (Create It True, Imagine That).

God’s trueness is an essential aspect of everything he creates. Creation is good and true only because God is a good and true Creator.

Imagination is one of the greatest gifts God infused within us.

Imagination gives us eyes to see what hasn’t been yet. And it is through our imagination that we can then usher in the new and not yet.

Your creativity can take a million different forms.

But if it reflects the Creator, it will be true. Because God is true.

There is great freedom in pursuing your creativity in this manner, because it shifts the focus from man-made rules to creating like the Creator.

Each day, we awake empty and fill ourselves anew. The choice is yours—to be filled with God or become more full of yourself.

What we choose for fuel matters.