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\\ "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to you, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer."
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"For The Love of God is Creative"
(Psalm 8, 1 Corinthians 2:6-12)
*INTRODUCTION:*
            In Bil Keane's FAMILY CIRCUS, little Billy is watching television.
The speaker boldly says,/ "Remember this, my friends, great things never happen until some person in this world makes them happen."/
Billy's mind gets to thinking about the snow, the reflection of the moon on the lake at night, the waves crashing at the beach, a butterfly breaking out of its cocoon, a gorgeous sunset and a beautiful waterfall and then he says, /"Oh, yeah?"/ (1)
/            /Billy had the youthful wisdom to give credit where credit is due, to God.
*I.
GOD THE CREATOR:*
*            *I find it very interesting that one of the foundational beliefs of the world's three greatest religions is that the world was created by a loving God.
One of the basic tenets of  the Christian, Jewish and Islamic beliefs is that God is the Creator and author of the universe and everything in it.
All three faiths accept the creation story found in Genesis.
That story acknowledges God as the Creator.
Maybe the big bang theory really does describe how the universe came to be.
But maybe it isn't so much physics or a physical description of how it took place as it is an emotional description of what took place.
Do you remember those times in your life when you've felt that deep aching burst of love that you didn't think you would be able to contain.
It was so big and felt so good that it almost hurt.
And you knew if you didn't do something, you would bust wide open.
It might have happened one day while you were looking across the room at your spouse.
It might have been when you held your new born for the very first time.
It might have been at your child's wedding or graduation.
It really doesn't matter where or when.
The love you feel at that moment aches to the point of tears.
It wells up and swells and wants to get out.
You're filled with an all encompassing love for this other person or this child of your creation, this gift of God.
You feel like singing, and shouting.
You feel like dancing like Fred Astair and spiking the ball like Willie 'white shoes' Johnson  used to do.
You want to laugh and to cry and give out a Tarzan yell all at one time.
But instead of doing any of those things you grin a grin that threatens split your face in two.
And the sparkle in your eye is so bright it threatens to blind everybody else.
To my way of thinking, it was that kind of love multiplied by the infinity  of God that burst across the endless void creating the universe and everything in it.
God was so filled with love, love to be shared and love to be given, that God couldn't hold it in and didn't want to hold it in.
So instead, God created the universe.
*II.
CREATED IN GOD'S IMAGE:*
*            A.
*But God wasn't through.
God's love was so all encompassing and so magnificent that it couldn't settle and wouldn't settle on loving just the universe.
The story continues and it tells us that on the last working day of God's Creation Workshop, God created us, you and I, male and female, the human beings.
Some say that the creation of human beings was an accident caused by a careless chemical spill into the murky puddles on the floor of God's biology lab.
Some say it was an after-thought on God's part, that God really wanted zoo keepers for the rest of creation.
Others say we are simply a by-product of all the leftovers of creation.
I could understand looking at the platypus and thinking that but not at human beings.
And still others have said that we are just a virus, parasites spreading across the face of the earth, sucking the life out of nature and fooling ourselves into believing we have a higher purpose.
Scripture, though, tells us something completely different.
Scripture tells us that we have a high calling and a higher purpose.
It tells us that we are *NOT* an accident.
Far from it.
Scripture tells us that God looked at all of creation and  pronounced it good, then God conferred with the Angels about what else was needed.
They were stumped and couldn't think of anything, it all looked perfect to them.
But then God said, /"Let us make humankind, in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."/
So God created humankind in God's image, in the image of God he created them; male and female God created them.
(Gen 1:26-27)
            We weren't some accident or some coincidence.
We were created on purpose and with a purpose.
God created us for God, for creation and for each other.
God looked at humanity with all of its potential; with its freedom to choose, to love, to think, to be creative and to give of itself.
God looked at humanity endowed with abilities far beyond those of the animals; God looked at us with all of our frailties and God said, /"It is very good!"/
            *B.
*When was the last time you got a compliment like that?
When was the last time someone looked at your work or your effort and simply said, /"Great job!"  "Good work!" /or/ "Very Good!"  /Usually it sounds like this..."/Great job, Frank....but this portion here could use some extra work.
/OR  /"This is delicious Ethel.
I make one similar but I use walnuts instead.
I think walnuts taste better."
/You know the second that there's a pause, there's going to be an addendum.
But there was no addendum with God.
God looked at man and woman, created in God's image and God said, /"It is very good!"/
            *We are created in the image of God*.
We aren't all punched out on some assembly line in Detroit.
We aren't pressed out cookie cutter fashion.
We're not mass produced and shrink wrapped.
Instead, we are created individually.
We are hand made pieces of art; culturally, regionally and even locally different.
We are all different.
There is no one else in the whole world just like us.
In some folks you can see a family resemblance.
My little brother and I look  a lot alike.
But we're different.
I even have a doppelganger, a double, someplace.
I met him in Coast Guard boot camp.
His name is Bill Posey and he's from Oregon.
In boot camp they gave you a buzz haircut and you didn't get to have any facial hair.
Everybody looked alike.
Except for me and Bill, we looked just alike.
It was like looking in the mirror.
We were the same weight and same height.
We looked so much alike that we could fool everybody into thinking we were the other guy.
In the service you had to stencil your name inside all of your clothing.
We fooled everybody so much that they started looking at our stencils to see who was who.
So we started swapping clothes.
Nobody could tell us apart until our hair started growing out.
Bill's hair was darker and wavy.
After that we couldn't fool them any more.
And that's the wonderful thing about being created in God's image.
There may be those who resemble us but there is no one, anywhere, who is just like us.
We are each one of a kind, unique, designer originals, created by the very hand of God, in God's own image.
We are created in the image of God.
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