(cont'd from yesterday's post)
God was the first to create, the first artist and first builder. Our race takes after Him, and we create too. In fact, we take the material he provided in the natural world and do something with it to bless and serve our family and neighbors.
"Someone who loves roses can develop new hybrids with different fragrances or colors. When they do this, they function as an image bearer of God, governing roses. Others govern wood; from a block of wood they can make something beautiful.
"This truth applies not only to the fine arts but to every creative work: an oil painting and a lesson plan, a musical composition and a clean toilet, a literary novel and a tidy home that refreshes a family, an exquisite sculpture and a successful surgery, a pencil sketch and a repaired vehicle, a verse of poetry and a new work process.
J.R.R.Tolkien, Christian and author of Lord of the Rings, says we are sub-creators, continuing and completing the creation of this world begun by The Creator.
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