Creative in the Image of God

God said, let there be ... and there was.

Over and over in Genesis 1 we read these words. God speaks, and a world comes into existence. Then at the last He creates man, male and female, in His own image.

Curious how this fits in with the theme of much of my musing lately, how we speak, and by the way we speak we create (or destroy) worlds. We create and change and destroy far more than we ever realize simply by speaking. Sometimes the worlds we create by our language are roughly consistent with God's world — more often the worlds we create are at considerable odds with God's world.

Perhaps this power to create, change and destroy by our speech is part of being created in the image of God. And perhaps that is why the Bible so often notes how powerful the tongue is, and warns us to guard it well.

Perhaps that's also why God has appointed such a seemingly inefficient thing as "telling your story" to be the way His Kingdom is to take over the false worlds we humans have tried to put in place over against His world.