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By Pastor Glenn Pease
Dave Brubeck is a master of improvisational jazz music.
For years he has traveled all over the world playing concerts with no written music.
He just goes on stage and plays new and different music that did not exist anymore.
He use to fear that he might use his creative skill, but that fear faded when he was driving one day in a snow storm.
The falling snow reminded him that God's creativity is endless, for no two of those flakes falling by the trillions were alike.
It dawned on him that God can never run dry and exhaust his ideas.
Newness is infinite, and from that time on he lost his fear and it never returned.
In God there is no end to creativity.
Everything that was made, and all of the marvels of creation are the work of God's fingers, which He made through His Son Jesus.
The best is yet to come when God creates a new heaven and a new earth with beauty and wonders beyond our comprehension.
God's creativity is the foundation for all that is good, true and beautiful, and because we are made in the image of God we are designed to also create that which is good, true and beautiful.
Even fallen man with his damaged and deviled image of God has enough of that image left to still be a creature of creativity.
The more man digs up the past, the more he realizes the ancient world was a world of creativity.
The works of art and craftsmanship of the ancients is clear evidence that creativity has always been universal.
God desires that His own people be a people who have a love for all that is beautiful and harmonious.
Solomon said that God has made everything beautiful in its time.
He expected His people to follow that pattern, and the result was that the temple of Israel was a wondrous work of art.
Every skill and gift known to man was employed to make it one of the wonders of the world worthy of a place to worship the God of all creation.
We don't have time to trace the creativity of God and His people through history, and so we need to focus on just one text of Paul that opens up a wide window on the subject of creative Christians.
The verse in Eph.
2:10 has us focusing on the theme of poetry.
God made us all unique and so not only is our creativity different, but even the same creativity is achieved in a variety of ways.
Mozart thought out whole symphonies in his head and then put them on paper.
Beethoven wrote fragments of themes in notebooks and developed them over the years.
Scholars who look at his early drafts marvel that he could ever end up with a musical miracle from such a clumsy beginning.
Each was gifted, but they were unique, as we all are.
We have a creative God, and He expects us to reflect His creativity, and be poems that speak of His love.
Jesus was God's greatest love poem, but we also are to be love sonnets by which God seeks to let the world know of His love.
The Greek word poiema is used only two places in the Bible, and both of them are by Paul.
You have the one in this verse, and the other one is in Rom.
1:20 where Paul says, "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-His eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."
The Greek word poiema is hidden behind those words, "What has been made."
God workmanship, or His poetry of all creation is so clearly an evidence of a creator that no man will ever be excused who says He didn't know there was a God.
God's poetry in all creation leaves man inexcusable.
Then God goes a step further and creates more poetry in Christian lives that witness that He is love, and that He has provided a way to turn life's discord into a song.
Quite often a person will be speaking and unconsciously make his sentences rhyme, and the remark will be made, "You are a poet and don't know it."
This is never the case with the poetry of God, for He is a Poet who knows it.
None of His works of art are a matter of accident.
As Browning wrote, "God Himself is the best Poet, and the Real is His Song."
God has deliberately built the rhyme and beauty of poetry into all He has made.
It is accident that a large portion of the Bible is poetry.
Not only are the books from Job to Song of Solomon poetry, but there is much scattered through the historic and poetic books as well.
God is a Poet who has used poetry to communicate much of His revelation to man.
P. J. Bailey wrote,
Poetry is itself a thing of God;
He made His prophets poets, and the more
We feel of posie do we become
Like God in love and power.
Poetry is the language of love and power.
There is power in poetry, but maybe not so much as the young bride thought when her husband stood beside her in the moonlight on the beach.
He said, "Roll on, though dark and deep blue ocean, roll!" "O Richard," she sighed, "You're wonderful-look, its doing it!"
Man's poetry does not cause the beauty of power and creation, but is caused by it.
God's poetry is the cause.
He speaks the word and the blank black sky becomes star-spangled blazing with beauty as it blinks out the message of His power and glory.
He speaks the word and the barren desert blooms with the beauty of multicolored blossoms.
Poetry is power when the Poet of poets Himself becomes eloquent.
All things bright and beautiful;
All creatures great and small;
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
God is Poet who knows it, and He has revealed His poetic nature in the Bible and in His creation.
What is of interest to us at this time is the third channel by which God reveals His poetic nature.
It is a thrilling concept that is hidden to the English reader of the Bible.
In verse 10 Paul says to the Ephesian Christians, "You are God's workmanship."
The Greek word for workmanship is poiema from which we get our word poem.
G. Campbell Morgan and other commentators say that this can be accurately translated, "You are God's poems."
The Christian is a living work of art created in Christ Jesus unto good works.
God has a multitude of witnesses in the heavens declaring His glory, and the earth is also full of His poems in the realm of plant and animal life, but Christians are God's poems in the kingdom of man.
When the church gathers for worship it is a library of the Lords literature.
Singing plays a major role in our worship, for it is a gathering of poems to express their gratitude to their author for making them what they are.
What Longfellow wrote of children applies especially to the children of God.
Come to me, O ye children!
And whisper in my ear,
What the birds and winds are singing in your sunny atmosphere.
For what are all our contrivings, and the wisdom of our books,
When compared with your caresses, and the gladness of your looks?
Ye are better than all the ballads that ever were sung or said;
For ye are living poems, and all the rest are dead.
Christians are to God what children were to Longfellow, for we are His living poems.
We are His greatest means of displaying His glory among men where it counts the most.
Paul says that the Ephesians were once dead and discord characterized their lives.
They were so out of harmony with God that they were children of wrath, but God in His great love raised them from the dead and made them new creatures in Christ.
Paul says they are now examples of God's handiwork, for they are God's poems.
Every Christian is made for a purpose, for he is a masterpiece of God's creativity, and we want to consider what a Christians duty is as a poem of God.
We want to consider two characteristics of a good poem, which should be characteristics of all who are God's poems.
First-
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A POEM SHOULD BE BEAUTIFUL.
One translation of this verse is, "We are God's poems, created in Christ Jesus unto beautiful living."
Every poem of God must be characterized by beauty.
The chorus we sing, "Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me," should be the serious prayer of every believer.
Jesus was beautiful in every aspect of His life.
As the Lamb of God He was without spot or blemish.
Isaiah calls Him, "Branch beautiful and glorious."
Sad it is that men must miss the beauty of God's poems in earth and sky because they lack the light of eye, but sadder yet beyond compare when they miss the fairest of the fair.
Jesus is altogether lovely and the fairest of ten thousand.
He is the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley, the Bright and Morning Star.
The best of all God's beauties in creation are taken as names of the greatest of all God's poems-His Son.
Those who trust Him as Savior and seek to be conformed to His likeness will one day see the King in His beauty and awake in His likeness.
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