//And as the world tries to tell us it's unraveling – it seems something very wonderful is being woven together. We are living. We are standing. We are fighting. We are trusting. We are believing.
And we are creating.
Because that’s how we respond to chaos. We create.
It’s like our DNA is coded with this desire, derived from the one in whose image we were made: The One who creates from chaos.
In Genesis it says that the earth was “without form and void” The meaning in Hebrew is more akin to “chaotic nothingness” – as if you put nothing in a blender and gave it a good swirl. (A fascinating nugget I learned from The Bema Discipleship Podcast.)
This was God’s canvas for the creation of the cosmos.
His nature as a creator and a life-giver involves dipping His genius into the pallet of chaos and nothingness and articulating mountains, oceans, stars, life, love, wonder, and family. Only He knew what beauty could be brought forth from ashes.
So here we walk in the swirl pandemic and contradicting information, of lost jobs and lives, and life unsettled and freedoms stolen.
And the whole earth is groaning for you to remember who you are and whose you are and pick up your paintbrush. Because you were made to create beauty from chaos, just like your Father.
There is nothing small about a new song sung, a new story told, a new business created, a new friend made. And I can’t shake this very deep sense that there are things waiting to be uncovered in this season – gifts, talents, ideas, solutions, inventions, relationships that will bring forth life and healing and hope to those around us.
Compassion and creativity await your voice to tell them how to revive a world in need.
It’s time to rise, sons and daughters, and remember.
There is nothing small about walking in God’s nature.
-from "When Chaos is your Canvas", September 20, 2020
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