Creation part 3
I love this. Law of first mention, right? The first time the word "create" is used in the King James Version of the Bible is Psalm 51:10, "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." Creation is linked directly to the heart. The heart of God consuming the heart of man. God giving us what He has--who He is--so that we can experience this world that He has created for us. Living is loving, right? You can't have one without the other and you can't do one without the other. They aren't just connected. They are the same thing. Create in me a clean heart. That was man's cry. That was David, the man who was after God's own heart. Which didn't mean he HAD it, at the time, but that he wanted it. He was after it. He knew there was something missing. That God-shaped, love-shaped void that we talk about so much. But unlike his son, Solomon (who tried to fill that hole with everything under the sun and found it all to be vanity), David knew that the only thing that could fill a God-shaped hole... is God. The only thing that can fill a love-shaped void... is love. So he went straight to the source. Now, listen, because this is where it can get a little bit tricky. I've been building this Rant series on the premise that we have the same creative power that God has. He is The Creator and He created us in His image and likeness. As He is, so are we in this world. But now we see David crying out for God to create in him. Well, as simply as I can put it: the Psalms were written before the cross. We live after the cross. The difference is the Comforter. The Holy Spirit. That spark of creation. The down payment, I believe the New Testament calls it in one place. And, in reality, THAT is the clean heart, the right spirit, that David was crying out for. He asked for it, and on the cross Jesus delivered it. On the cross Jesus asked His Father to forgive us, and I believe God did. So we are equipped and empowered to do all the things that Jesus has done... and more things. We don't have to literally walk on water. We can just understand that everything--EVERYTHING--is under our feet. We don't have to ask God for the clean heart, I think is what I'm getting at. We have it. He gave it to us. Created it in us. It's not something we need. It's something we have. There's a different covenant that we're under. It's not God up on the mountain and us afraid to touch the mountain lest we die. It's Jesus seated at the right hand of the Father and us in Him. WE are seated at the right hand of the Father. The power seat. The seat of authority. When God created man He gave man dominion over all the earth. All the animals. To keep it and protect it. To take care of it. That's what the heart is for--love. That's what our clean heart and our right Spirit equips and empowers us to do. We are equipped and empowered to create. To let the love that's inside us come out and to experience things in Divine Order. Things work out so much better when we see them, and hear them, and experience them in Divine Order. That, in a sense, is what we create when we let the love that's inside come out. We create the reality that God has created for us. By accepting it. By receiving it and releasing it!