Imagination The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters….
Imagination
The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good… – Genesis 1:2-4
In continuing our exploration of the personality of God, another attribute of His that we will spotlight today is imagination. He is an imaginative God.
Imagination can be described as the inner eye. The eye that sees beyond the physical or surface value. Imagination is the eye that sees potential and prospect where such are not obvious. It is the eye that sees what can be even when it is not accessible to the average eyes. Imagination is the eye with which God sees. That is why He is able to call things which are not as though they were (Romans 4:17) because He sees beyond the surface value to know the true state of everything and what they might turn out to be.
Imagination is the power that served God so well during the process of creation such that He was able to make several creatures from few things. According to our reference passage above, when God saw an entity that “was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep,” a prospect that could easily discourage any creative effort, what God saw in the midst of all those shambles were light, heaven, earth, sea creatures, plants, animals, and humans. That was why He could decree those creatures into existence because His eyes had already seen them even when they were not obvious to anyone else. And from that jumble of confusion that the universe was, God started to make things, light, day, night, firmament, seas, ground, birds, fish, animals and so on.
Imagination is the springboard to invention and innovation. It is impossible to create anything without first imagining it to be sure how it would look after creation. God is the father of imagination, and He has created we humans in His image and likeness. That means we must be conscious of the advantage we have and be deliberate in using it to create the world that we desire for ourselves.
Understanding God: Self-Appraisal And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. – Genesis 1:4 As we continue to explore the personality…
Understanding God: Self-Appraisal
And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. – Genesis 1:4
As we continue to explore the personality of God, one of His unique attributes that we are introduced to early in the Bible is self-appraisal. He is a God who appraises Himself and His works. This theme runs through the history of creation as documented in Genesis chapter 1. We see excerpts such as “And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good…” (vs. 10); “And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good…” (vs. 12); “So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good…” (vs. 21).
Now, God was not reporting to anybody, and He did not need to impress anyone in His creation. But because He has such high standards, He took time to evaluate every single one of His works and did not just wave them on. This shows His meticulous nature. He is attentive to detail and does not leave anything to chance. Rather He checks that everything is as He envisioned it to be.
This practice did not just ensure that God came up with a masterpiece in His output, it also helped Him to see the potential for more in some of the things He had created. That was why He could create light out of darkness (2-3); separated day and night from the light (vs. 5-6); created a firmament (Heaven) to separate the waters above and below (vs. 7-8); created the Earth by gathering the waters below the firmament to one side so that hard surface might emerge (vs. 9-10); made sea creatures from the water body below (vs. 21); and brought forth grass, herb, and fruit trees from the new hard surface He created (vs. 11-13). And this went on and on until He formed humans from the same ground.
This tells us that God is inventive and imaginative. He would not have been able to create anything if He wasn’t. He does not rest on His soars and does not bask in yesterday’s glory. He is a forward-thinking God who is always looking out for an opportunity to do more, make more and get more as the evolution of His creation aptly demonstrated to us.
The good news is that He created you just like Him, with the same mindset, capacities and power to think, function and operate like Him. The question is how are you making use of these endowments?
Another lesson we can learn from God is His disposition to a balancing act. He is not a God of extremes. Even though some who profess to follow Him go to extremes in His name or make extreme claims on His behalf, extreme is not a label that one can pin on God. He balances the acts.
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