In the Beginning

Genesis 1:1 ~ "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

Sometimes... you have to go back to the beginning.

In the generations of bygone time, long before any person reading this (or any person ever) stood upon the earth, there exists One--God--infinite and almighty. And there in the first statement of the first book of the Holy Scriptures, He is mentioned: "In the beginning, God..."

If that is not enough to draw you away from all of the intrigues and interests of your current train of thought, then perhaps you need to remember that if the next statement is not mentioned--then you're never here. Creation is here because God created it. You are here because God created you. Our entire existence is here because God willed it to be here. 

Let us consider what the Psalmist said in Psalm 14:1, "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good." And yet, how often do people believe that God exists but are more like the fools in their practice, carrying on as if He did not? There are fools who call themselves atheists, and there are fools who believe God to be merely an abstract construct of the human need for the supernatural. And if you are reading this today and also hold to the notion that there is no God, then I would implore you to repent of that foolishness and seek to know the One true God who created all things.

It is of absolute, essential importance that you know that there is a God who is. When Moses asked who it was that he should say sent him to Egypt to deliver the Israelites from slavery, the LORD said to tell them, "I AM, sent me to you" (Exodus 3:14). He is the self-existent, absolutely autonomous, and all-sufficient Creator and Sustainer of all things.

Knowing there is a God, you must know Him as Creator. The second statement of the first verse of the Scriptures is: "...created the heavens and the earth."

But why is it important to know that God created all things? Because, if what we know as creation was not the work of the Divine hand of Almighty God, then everything the Scripture teaches is suspect. Jesus, our Lord, referenced the creation in His message, citing the reality that God created them male and female as He spoke of the sanctity of marriage (see Matthew 19:4-5). Consider the words of John 1:3, "All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made." You may not know the Lord Jesus as Creator, but the Lord knows you as His creature. 

Creation is also the first point of faith in Hebrews 11:3, "By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible." Step away from this and you will find yourself lost in the myriad of deceptions that would point you away from the Living God and His Son, our Lord Jesus who is the Savior of all who believe. 

My friends, this is God's earth. The stars are His. We are His creation as well. As His creation, we are not independent creatures that can self-determine the ends from the beginning. If I write a book, the characters are mine to do with as I choose. And as God has spoken this world into existence and has created you (see Psalm 139:13), He has absolute sovereignty over all that He made--including you. 

Dear Christian, sometimes we need to go back to the beginning and refresh our minds in the absolute truth that God is the Creator, Sustainer, Sovereign and All-Sufficient One. Look to Him this day, and remember who He is.

In His Grace,
​Pastor Michael

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