Friday Thought -- August 23, 2013

Good Morning Friends,

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)

That is the statement with which the Bible begins. It is really all that we need to know about how the world and all who inhabit it came into being.

God is the originator of all that exists.

God created the world. God created the heavens. God created plant life. God created animal life. God set into motion the way the world works – daylight and darkness, summer and winter and spring and fall. God created human life. God created everything.

How did God created it?

I don’t know and the Bible doesn’t offer a detailed explanation. There is much about life’s beginning that we don’t understand and never will. But this much we can know – God is the source of all that is.

Here’s a part of what that means –

God has the right to control and to use what He has created for the purposes He desires.

God deserves our worship – we flow from His power and intelligence and will.

God deserves our service – we belong to Him.

God deserves our thanks – there is nothing in this world that we have gained on our own – all things are a gift from God, even life itself.

If we could roll back history to its very beginning there is only one thing – One Being – we will find there. We will find God in the very beginning. If we could roll history forward to its end – God will be there, too. In the beginning – at the end – and everywhere in between – God is the One who is there and the One we can count on.

His, by Grace,

Steve