God Is the Author of Creativity
Allow me to share an experience that I had on my way back from East Tennessee to Phoenix this summer.
I took the Southern route through Dallas, Texas and decided to stop at The Dallas Museum of Art. I wanted to make this more than just a 2000 mile “drive back” trip.
The museum had a special exhibit on “Dior, From Paris to The World”. Needless to say, nether words nor images can adequately capture the sheer beauty of the magnificent pieces they have on display.
73 years of genius from the Dior creators. This is high fashion as art.
So, as a Christian I get my clues about beauty, art or esthetic design from God Himself.
God Himself is infinitely beautiful, but also creates incomprehensible beauty.
He is the author of creativity.
Look at the splendor of His creation.
Even though sin entered the world and infected everything we see, we still get glimpses of the extraordinary beauty God designed into creation.
Beauty is for God’s glory and is good: beauty in and of itself is not a bad thing. I believe Satan hates any beauty unless it is corrupted to only glorify man.
As we are created in His image, we have the gift to create and some of us can create quiet beautiful works of art.
We take the raw materials God created and recombine them into something unique and with talent, and sometimes by accident, we create something extraordinarily beautiful like the Dior show.
“Satan became so impressed with his own beauty, intelligence, power and position that he began to desire for himself the honor and glory that belonged to God alone”. – Ron Rhodes
“We have only seen a creation affected and corrupted by the fall”
God Is the Author of Creativity
I enjoyed this spectacular exhibit of the design and craftsmanship of thousands of people who worked for Dior.
It took various crafts to bring about the vision of the Christian Dior designs.
This artwork is not like looking at a painting by a single artist. It’s seeing the humble seamstress who knows the fabric and how to sew the perfect seam.
The worship of what man creates is vain and empty because the very ability to create is merely a gift from God. Paradoxically, I still enjoyed and was overwhelmed by an exhibit that for all purposes “glorifies man”.
I dare say it was all done for the glory of man and the creators. And that cast a bit of a stench, almost like a wet dog smell, on the whole thing.
It was not right.
If the loveliest High Creator of all color, material, movement, texture, shine, sparkle, even softness of material is neglected it is a waste!
I really enjoyed Dallas but there was a better show that God had planned for me to see in Midland, Texas.
There is a museum called the “Petroleum Museum” that was created by 5 of the bigger oill firms in the U.S. In terms of museums, this is a real gem.
No expense was spared. The exhibits are massive and 1st class. They cover the history of the petroleum industry and of course, all of its geology.
The best part for me was their mineral and gem displays procured, from underneath the earth. I had no idea they had such a world class exhibit of gems and minerals!
I can’t say that minerals and gems are a hobby of mine, but as I began to move through this exhibit, I was suddenly overwhelmed at the overall excellence of the collection the scope, and extraordinary beauty of these samples.
God Is the Author of Creativity
Specimens ranged in size from an apple to a basketball. Every subsequent glass showcase became more and more beautiful to me; more exotic, more extravagant.
And then… Boom!
I realized that I was looking at a display of God’s design sense and handcrafted beauty; far more extraordinary than what man can create and to beat it all, hidden under the earth, in the dirt! HIDDEN!
My eyes and my soul filled with gratitude and praise for this display of our Heavenly Creator then I realized I seen the best of the best that man could design in Dallas at the Dior show then in the middle of nowhere the greater show, the greater display, of beauty was to be found. I knew that neither stop was an accident as God intended for me to see both exhibits.
I felt God say to me: “Randy be grateful to Me for all of My gifts and remember you are only imitating your Heavenly Father.”
Only God as unique. Only His creation is original.
We are mere toddlers in the playpen. Children in a sand box.
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