I don't know if all men have something in them that makes them desire to create something, but I know I do.
As a computer geek, I have a job that pits me against a computer in a strategic battle of mind against machine. Although most of my job is tedious and repetitive, there is the occasional request to recover a screenplay someone has been working on for 2 years, someones digital family tree (pictures and all), or 5 years worth of business receipts. These types of failures require me to get strategic and use my mind. I like it.
I am beginning to realize though, that God has put in me, and I believe in some small way all men, the desire to CREATE. He created the sun, the moon, and the earth. Each and every one of us was fearfully, and wonderfully made by His hand. He creates, and I believe that by nature, we all get satisfaction out of creating/making something. We are after all, created in His image, and we are to be transformed into the image of our Messiah.
I am pondering this because I am in the process of building a set of bunk beds to try and raise some extra money. I have cut and routered all my boards and I am beginning to see a pile of lumber transforming into something completely different. A couple holes drilled, bolts and screws added, and I will have something that someone will want, and that will serve a purpose. I am creating something better out of something that was rough, ugly and non-functional.
As my A.D.D. brain is writing this, it has apparantly gone on to a different thought process, as God leads it. As will probably happen in many of my posts, my ending is not in support of my beginning, it is a rabbit trail in a different direction then I had intended.
I see this creation now as an allegory to how our lives should be. We are awesomely created by a loving God, but we grow up under fallible man, with a sinful nature. We are imperfect, ugly, and barely functional, but with Gods help we can, and should, be transformed into the perfect nature of our Messiah.
