God carries on creative work through human beings. Human beings serve as instrument of transformation of thoughts and ideas from spiritual state to physical state. Our mind which is an aspect of brain mechanism is a creative device which enables us to relate to spiritual as well as physical existence.

Our role in creative process involves receiving thoughts and ideas which emanate from God into our mind. By means of our mental and physical powers we are able to transform these thoughts and ideas into physical reality. So human being receives from spiritual and transforms into physical. Our function in creative process can be likened to function of a television set. The pictures we see on screen do not originate from television set. The television set receives signals that are transmitted from a television station and then transforms these signals into observable pictures on television screen. In case of creative process, thinking enables us to tune in to and receive thoughts, ideas and concepts from God. These thoughts, ideas and concepts we are then able to transform into physical (objective) reality by means of our mental and physical powers. To illustrate this process let us consider how a building comes into existence. By thinking, an architect receives ideas and concepts of design of a building in his mind. By means of his mental and physical abilities he transfers his mental pictures of design of this building to drawing on paper. A builder, by interpreting this drawing, is able to construct building thereby bringing it into existence. And so what has come from God as thoughts has eventually become a physical reality.

Evidently, human being is a co-worker with God in creative process.

Your Gift of Creative Ability:

Human beings are endowed with creative ability. We have capacity to do things requiring intelligence. Our creative ability is in form of mental and physical powers. Since our physical abilities are obvious, I shall focus attention on human mental powers. Observation of human beings reveals that human mind exhibits certain capabilities. These are:

Drive:

This is mental power by which a person presses forward or pushes on with a task. It is capacity of mind to sustain effort and get things done.

Power of Self Control:

This is mental power by which a person can direct his thoughts and actions and exercise control over his feelings and impulses.

Power of Feeling:

This is power of mind by which a person is able to perceive, experience or become conscious of physical and spiritual phenomena through feeling.

Intelligence:

This is mental power we have of perceiving, learning, understanding and knowing.

There are three aspects to human intelligence and these are:

Intellect: This is power of mind to reason.

Memory: This is power of keeping facts in conscious mind and being able to call them back at will.

Knowledge: The actual knowledge a person has is an aspect of his intelligence.

All these mental powers are present in every normal human being. These mental powers working together determine a person's mental qualities and characteristics. Our mental powers together with our physical abilities constitute our creative ability.

The extent, degree or level to which human beings are gifted with each of these different mental powers varies from individual to individual. No two individuals match each other in extent of endowment of every one of these mental powers. By this I mean that no two individuals have same measure of drive, same degree of self-control and same depth and strength of power of feeling as well as have same measure of intellect, same strength of memory and same amount of knowledge. However, people may be classed in broad groupings of level of endowment of particular mental powers. For example, depending on extent to which a person is gifted intellectually, such a person may be described in any one of following ways: as having low intellectual ability, as having average intellectual ability, as having high intellectual ability or as having exceptional intellectual ability.

“Am I Where God Is?”

Where He leads me, I will follow—or so goes old hymn. Now, if I can only find Him…

Saint Augustine of Hippo found true liberty in 386 AD. Listen to his words, “How sweet all at once it was for me to be rid of those fruitless joys which I had once feared to lose!... You drove them from me, you who are true, sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place, you who are sweeter than all pleasures.” The “place” that Augustine once reserved for immorality and debauchery was invaded by God who then filled that empty place with His great joy and sweet pleasures. Augustine found God and followed Him. He could truly say, after his conversion and throughout rest of his life: I am where God is.

Blaise Pascal once said, “All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end… The will never takes least step but to this object. This is motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.” Blaise Pascal is not very well known in church circles because he was a mathematician who invented, among other things, calculator— hundreds of years before electricity ran through wires. He is very well known, however, among Bible students because of term: “Pascal’s Wager.” No time to explain that here, but there is time to consider Pascal’s statement. He believed that all men were motivated by need for pleasure. If suicide could end their misery and bring them relief, then suicide it was. That sounds odd, but I think it is true. People seek things, even various religions, because they think they will bring them happiness. But, “things” in this world, even religious devotion, can not give man true pleasure or happiness. That’s right. Only God can give man fulfillment. Allow me to continue, please.