A few thoughts on God’s creativity
A few thoughts on God’s creativity
Posted December 29th, 2010 by admin with Comments Off
Infinite God, from eternity past, creating, with the Cross in sight, entering into time. The Timeless CREATING time – imagining the idea, then sustaining it with his own will and thought, carrying forward all of history to it’s great and glorious end: the real beginning.
I am a believer. That’s not to say that I believe in anything – quite the opposite. In most ways, I am a skeptic – an atheist, even. That’s just to say, there are a great many gods that I don’t believe in, and I do not like to be made a fool.
Yet, there is Jesus, and when I consider him – when I look back across history into His face, I see more than a mere caricature: I meet a person – flesh and blood. Jesus, as a person, is one I can’t shake, and his radical life is the sort that simply doesn’t make sense outside of a certain context, and that’s where everything gets weird.
I don’t believe to suggest that the pieces all fall together neatly: the infinite as finite, and Spirit as flesh is confusing enough to wrap ones mind around, but then three as one – even if a scientific model call be conceived of – when it works itself out into daily life is just hard to get one’s brain around. So I doubt, but then I always just slide back towards Jesus.
I suspect it is just a reflection of divine creativity, after-all, and creativity doesn’t always make easy sense. To consider an infinite God, from eternity past, creating a universe which He knows full well will fall – with the Cross in plain sight – then entering into time, though timeless – the creator and sustainer of time, no less. A baby, growing in Godliness like a normal man, carrying forward history itself by his own will. That’s creative – God knows, I would’ve never thought of it.
And that’s the beauty of it all – God doesn’t think, or act like me. Good for God.