The Joy of Being a Sub-Creator

I was growing up. I was graduating and could no longer play soccer for our homeschooling high school team. I loved soccer, not just for the game, but the people I played with and the lessons I had learned about endurance and the Christian life.

Being out in the soccer field I knew the presence of God, but now it was all going to end. Eccl.-3:1 says "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven." But doesn't God want His children to glimpse Him and have a sense of His presence? If I wasn't able to play soccer any more what was I to do?

As I lie on the floor in my room thinking this thought, God brought this to my mind:

galaxies, water, sound waves, physics, all things great and small, the salvation story.

All these things He had created. He seemed to say, "Do you really think I'm not creative enough to provide something else for you?"

I had limited God. I had believed soccer was the only way I would see his glory. But God is faithful, in fact, "His saints what is fitting shall ever be denied so along as it's written 'the Lord will provide.'" God has blessed me with the ability to and the love of making things with my hands. As I do this I glimpse, in a very small way, the delight God must taken in forming the universe. He has made me to be a sub-creator in order to reflect Him and I am so thankful to be His.

posted by: Caroline