A God of Change

Looking back at my experiences of the last months and years I'm convinced that our God is a God of change, of transformation.

Yes, surely, he created order out of chaos, or so it is described in Genesis 1. But I often have the feeling that people see the creator as this businessman: He launched a project and now he's managing what he brought into being, so that it can run efficiently and successfully.

But I like to see God more as an artist. Someone who's enthusiastic and curious, who wants to spread joy and thus, starts to create.

Sometimes he is so focused and pays attention to every detail, and then all his patterns are in harmony, correspondent to one another. And sometimes he takes five buckets of colour and throws it all on a canvas. This kind of art is just as beautiful but has to be seen and understood with other eyes.

I imagine God as tactic yet playful. And with another empty canvas lurking just around the corner at his big house. Who knows what's next?

God as well as his creation has many facets and is not set in stone, but is in motion. And we are part of it! So we don't have to be afraid of transformation, or being transformed ourselves - since, in the end, our God is a God of Love as well as Change.

(Miriam)