What artists produce builds culture, in both large and small ways. This mandate shows us that what we put into the world matters to God. This is a specific call for Bezalel to build the tabernacle. As such, we have to recognize that not all of his experience applies to all Christians in all situations. Namely, that the gifts and abilities of an artist come from the Lord, and that He gave them to us for His purposes. When God creates an artist, he does so with the talents and abilities necessary to see His beauty and truth in the world, and lead others to them.
The call of the artist is a personal one that comes from God. For an artist to walk away from this call, either in purpose or use of their gifts, is tragic. I think there are two ways to be sure in your calling, and both are important.
First, you should have a deep need to create or use your gift. You simply must do it. Secular artists have always observed that art is universal; all societies in every kind of economic or political situation, in all time periods, have produced art.
Humanists have correctly observed that art is integral to human nature, but they haven't known why. God's Word tells us God is the original creator Genesis , the one of whom the word "creator" is truly descriptive.
He created out of nothing not only the objects that exist, but even the materials out of which they are made. Not only does God create, but He also reflects upon, evaluates, and enjoys what He has made Genesis After each day of creation, God reflected on what He had made and evaluated it as good.
At the end of the process, He declares it all to be very good. God made the beauties of creation because He enjoyed them Psalm , Genesis He made a beautiful place for us to live in and gave us the power to share His enjoyment of its beauty. Visual beauty is not only a means of creative expression and enjoyment, but also a universal means of communication. Psalm describes nature as a language without words that has "gone out to all the earth. In Romans , He declares that mankind knows the Truth and refuses to obey it.
Our lack of response to that visual message is enough to condemn us. Since God has created us and made us to reflect Him Genesis , we are also capable of aesthetic creation, reflection, self-evaluation, and visual communication. We get some indication of the importance of aesthetics in human nature when we reflect that the success of Satan's temptation of Eve was due to her aesthetic nature Genesis Instead, it begins with a story about an artist.
Click To Tweet. But what does this mean? The Hebrew word used here is tselem , which refers to an image, likeness, or resemblance. An image contains characteristics of the original and, at the same time, points back to it.
As humans, God designed us to reflect some of His qualities. One of these is the ability and desire to create. The creative output of our lives should in one way or another, reflect the original Creator. Art itself cannot be Christian, but it can—and should—flow from Christians.
Since you are a child of God, you are endowed with creative abilities by definition. The problem is that in our modern culture, we have a concept of creativity that is based on the performing arts. We see creativity as something that is possessed by movie stars, famous writers, and temperamental but talented musicians.
Sure, those people are talented and creative. He loves the things that make you different from everyone else. You have unique qualities for a purpose and you should embrace them with confidence. Oftentimes, the best ingredient to a work of art is patience.
When our alarm goes off we have a schedule full of meetings, work, a minute lunch break, phone calls, and more. It never ends. This Biblical wisdom from King Solomon says that everything is made beautiful in its time. That means some things require time to be made beautiful.
Whenever a designer is at work, their work requires an abundance of patience. The highest-quality paintings, music, food, and statues all take time to create, sometimes a single piece of artwork takes years to complete. Remember that the process might look like a mess, but we have a guarantee that it will be made into something beautiful in time and applied patience.
Here, the writer of Hebrews tells us where inspiration and creativity comes from. The invisible is the source of everything that we see. Everything in the world that we see was first seen in the imagination. The iPhone existed in the mind of Steve Jobs before the physical product was created. When we have a revelation of this, it will change the way we think and we will be inspired to reignite our imagination. Have you ever looked out at the sunset sky painted with vibrant red, orange, yellow, and blue streaks?
Or looked up to see the stars spread out across the night sky? The endless heavens are a fascinating sight to see and inspire many skillful artists to create masterpieces. At night we can see stars and planets that are millions and billions of miles away. During the day, the sun lights up our world from 93 million miles away. What are you focused on?
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