How God Creates: Creating by Making

How God Creates: Creating by Making

by | Sep 4, 2025 | Archives, God

Creating by Making: God’s Principle of Hard Work and Creation

Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. – Genesis 1:16

We continue to explore the creative principles of God; a legacy He has also bestowed to humans. Today, we will be considering the principle of creation by making, or doing the gritty work to build, construct, form or make what needs to be created.

Drawing from our reference scripture today, the Bible says God “made” two great lights. The word “made” there suggests working with hands. Therefore, God did not just decree everything into being and wham! they appeared, He also got His hands dirty by building, forming, crafting, constructing and making what He wanted to create.

The principle of creating by making was what God used to create the likes of clouds (firmament), sea creatures, animals, ants, and His masterpiece, humans. These can be seen in the excerpts below:

Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. – Genesis 1:7

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. – Genesis 1:21

And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. – Genesis 1:25

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

So, apart from using imagination, the inner eye, to see what could be, and then declaring, separating or extracting them into being, God also got to work to make some of His creatures. The words, ‘separate’ and ‘extract’ on their own already hinting at work being done.

Therefore, God worked to make His creatures, and He must have worked very hard too. That is why the Bible says, “On the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.” (Genesis 2:2).

Our God is a working God. And He has made us in His likeness. So we have no excuse not to work as well.

Jesus Loves You!

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Understanding God: God of Imagination

Understanding God: God of Imagination

by | Aug 18, 2025 | Archives, God

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.

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