The Love of God Our Creator

We love because he first loved us.

1 John 4:19

Meditating on God’s love is essential to our walk with Jesus, for it’s out of His love that we love others. Relying on emotion alone to show others the kind of love Christ calls us to will ultimately burn us out. This week, I want to intentionally explore together the love of God as our Creator.

¹³For you formed my inward parts;

you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

Psalm 139:13–14

The picture this verse paints of God is so intimate: a master in His craft intently focusing on His work. Delicate, practiced movements as He knits together the masterpiece of His creation: you.

Have you ever created something? I took up crocheting not too long ago. I’ve never been an arts and crafts girl, but I wanted to try something new, so I bought some pretty cream-colored yarn and a couple wooden hooks, and I looked up a few simple patterns. My first (successful) project was a banner of little stars to hang over the window of our living room. Let me tell you, that banner took a lot of time and effort to create, and by the end, it was far from perfect. But I love it.

How much more attention, energy, and care does God put into creating us? How much more does He love us?

³When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

⁴what is man that you are mindful of him,

and the son of man that you care for him?

Psalm 8:3–4

How wonderful is it that God created the great expanse of the universe, and still He thinks of us?

You may sometimes feel like God is distant—I know I've had seasons like that. But our Creator is not a craftsman who starts a project, gets bored, then abandons it. From the time He spoke the world into existence until now, He has been in the midst of His creation, and He will continue to be present with us.

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Matthew 6:26

Our God is the God of all the earth. God lifts the birds in flight, places the stars in the sky, paints the wildflowers, draws the borders of the ocean—and this same God made you. He calls you and me the most valuable part of His creation. 

²⁶Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

²⁷So God created man in his own image,

In the image of God he created him;

male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:26–27

With loving intentionality, God designed every single human so that we would be like Him. Made in His own image, he knit us together, taking the clay of the earth and forming us.

Do you treat people like they were made in the image of God? Do you believe that everyone on earth has invaluable worth, not because of anything they’ve done, but because of who created them?

Do you believe that about yourself?

Action Steps:

• Spend five minutes (or more!) meditating on God’s love for you as your Creator. (Verses like the ones throughout this post are often a great place to start.)

• Spend some unhurried time in God’s creation. Notice the details. Praise Him for the vastness of His creativity and wonder at the work of His hands.

• When you find yourself irritated by people in your life this week, whether its coworkers, fellow drivers, people online, or your own family members, remind yourself that God created each of them in His own image. Let that fact help you love them the way Jesus would. 

May God our Creator provide for and sustain you.