Exodus 34:10 — And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:27) — We are created in God’s image. Not, of course, that each of us is a physical replica of the glory of God — but that we have characteristics, attributes, that replicate those of our creator.
The most wonderful attribute of God that we have been gifted with is love. To me, though, the gift of creativity runs it close. People can create things that nobody else has ever dreamed of!

Creativity is a marvelous mysterious thing. We see the mystery at the start of the passage in Exodus 34 where God restates His covenant with Israel. “I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth.” God does that. He constantly  does things — great and small things — in ways they have never been done before.

It was my turn to cook dinner tonight. I cooked an Indian style curry. As I was doing it I was reminded of how many different cuisines there are in India. There are at least 30 major cuisines … Hundreds of dishes invented by somebody doing something in a way nobody had ever done it before. You can find the same thing all over the world.

I love music, and I love to sing. Every week I learn at least one new song. As with food, so with music … There are thousands of different styles all over the world, millions of pieces of music.

Does it seem I’m focusing on the trivial when I look at creativity? What about the masterpieces of art or literature? What about the wonders of science and technology, what about the miracles of medicine? It’s true that these are amazing  … but they are not really different in kind, and to me the true wonder is that each of us has this mysterious ability to do things differently in our daily lives — everyone of us has this glorious gift of creativity.

Human creativity is not in the same sphere as God’s. We did not create life, in all its wonderful teeming variety, we have not created countless numbers of planets. But every one of us is made in His image, and like little children doing what their parents do, we are all busily creating like Father does. It’s wonderful!