I’m reading The Mind of the Maker by DL Sayers. It’s a book about her theology of God as Creator, and about the author’s role as a creator of literature.

Now by “God as Creator,” Sayers is not dealing with arguments of evolution v. creationism. Subject doesn’t interest me, and appears not to have interested her. Rather, it’s a book on a neglected aspect of God’s nature–his role as Creator–that so often gets missed because we tend to limit God to his roles of Judge, Moral Law-Giver, Protector/Savior, etc. But in a very real way, God has been creating things from, quite literally, day one.

To water down some fascinating theology into a few words, God cares about what you create. He cares about what you believe and what the moral direction of your life is too, but he also cares about what you write, paint, enact, build, and perform. Our little creations are an enactment of God as Creator, in whose image we are made. He also cares about personal creation–what effort and attention do you pour into who you are becoming, the talents and qualities he’s given you and which require hard work to develop?

God cares if you’re good. He also cares if you make good art.

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