Children take an intense interest in everything they do. Spend a few minutes or, more likely an hour, watching a child play with Play-Doh and you will see intense concentration as they strive to create objects.
Their creations appear in many forms. Some of their creations emerge from their imagination and don't resemble anything tangible. Other creations come from their limited experience and vaguely resemble bicycles, snakes, turtles, and anything else that they can create with their hands.
If they don't get it right the first time, they smash it all up and start over, rejuvenating their thought processes and drawing from millions of thoughts going through their minds. The final product may not really look like anything to anyone else but the creator.
Is this how God saw the world when he started the process of creation? Did He look at a mass and decide that he wanted it to look like this or that or something else? How did He know what the end product would be? What thoughts were swirling around in His head when he started creating the birds, the animals, the flowers, the trees and, eventually, man and woman?
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them....God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. (Genesis 1:27, 31, New International Version)
1 comment:
I like your comments. I am sure God creates much differently than I do. I am sure He knows exactly how it will look when He is finished. I, on the other hand, just start smashing the Play-Doh not knowing what I am making and as it starts to take on one shape or another I then decide what I should make. Sometimes it comes out to be something recognizable and sometimes it does not.
I am glad God does not create like I do. His creations are always perfect.
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