All creation worships . . .

The revelation of God must be released through the creation of God.

God says let us make man in our image. God is constantly recreating you in His image if you allow Him to.

Man says let's make idols in our image – gods that serve us. It's a perversion of God's image in us as creators. A distortion of our purpose to create like Him.

In reality a god created to serve you will only exist to enslave you.

What we create reveals who we are allowing to create us and who we are allowing to shape and to form us.

These false creators can be fear, woundedness, unforgiveness, arrogance, pride, lust, shame, ego, false identities and codependence on family, social and peer groups to name a few.

An angry painting can express a dark season from which we have been delivered or it can express a darkness we are in bondage to.

That's why our life and our art should be intentionally infused with redemption. Sin and darkness have no redeeming qualities, they are just the path of least resistance when self is the means and the end of creation.

Our redemption stories are recreation stories. There is always eternal hope in creation because of redemption.

So our creativity, our creations reflect our stories and point to the hope we have in our Creator.

Who is the author of your story? Who is placed in the position as redeemer?

If we are the author, if we are after self-redemption, if we have pushed out into the realm of shaping ourselves, commanding our destiny we rage against the true Creator.

In our writing, our speaking, our painting, photography, movie making, song writing, home building, crafting, making, parenting, leading – in all of it there exists purity from the Creator alongside taintedness from our sin soaked self.

My goal would be to regularly wash the sin-soaked side in the blood of Jesus and press towards ridding my life, my work, my art, all of the me God wants me to be of anything that strives to take authorship and ownership. Anything that redirects glory from the divine artist to the canvas.

Our story is the work of art painted with, spoken with and radiated with the light of the glory of God.

‘The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” – Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Soli Deo gloria - Latin for Glory to God alone. 

If the glory isn't God's alone it is being shared with something or someone else. Lord forgive us.

I believe what Bach was saying was that authentic soul satisfaction, – fully functioning in divine purpose– comes alive to the fullest when our creative expressions glorify the One true Creator.

Anything less is a false feeling of fulfillment, simply a lie from the counterfeit creator and will bear no fruit for eternity.