Whatever you think about the origins of the universe, one thing seems certain: the universe started as a kind of blank slate that is now filled with stars, planets, comets, gas, dark matter, and all manner of other debris and material.

Think about the effort and creativity that must have gone into the creation of the universe. It’s so mind-boggling that it’s almost impossible for us to wrap our minds around it.

Yet here is one tiny way we get to experience what it must have been like. Every time you sit down to write, you have a tiny sense of what it feels like to create. In fact, since we are all created in the image of God, and the very first image of God we have in the Bible is God as a Creator, it stands to reason that we imitate God in some small way when we create.

The novelist Sidney Sheldon said, “A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God.” So the next time you sit down to write and it seems hard, it’s because it is hard. But with that difficulty comes the amazing possibility of creation. You get to bring a new creation into existence with just your words.

We will never know what it’s like to be God, but we are blessed to have just a tiny bit of his creative power.