the truth shall set you free

Exodus 32:15-16:

Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back they were written. The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

Have you ever really paused to consider that Moses was delivered two tablets, hewn and engraved by almighty God? As a designer, I pay particular attention to typography. I can’t even imagine how those Ten Commandments looked, engraved to literal perfection by God Himself.

We are created in the image of God, and thus, we possess an inherent creativity. Artistotle aptly noted that the driving force behind our desire to be creative is that we are imitative creatures. Even the most “original” artists cannot escape what Aristotle called mimesis; the creative interpretation of the world we live in. We admire a beautiful painting of a sunset, a flower or the human figure, but do we often stop to think about the reason we find it so beautiful? The truth is, it is nothing more than an imitation or representation of the perfectly beautiful creativity of our God. We paint sunsets; God made the sunset. The world is quick to laud a “creative genius” in their midst, but so many fail to recognize the source of all creative genius: Jehovah.

Romans 1:19-20:

For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.