Have you ever thought about God’s creative power? I mean, really thought about it? We who believe know about it of course. We talk about it sometimes and we accept it generally, but to think deeply about it is another matter all together.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
There are two things, if not perhaps millions of things, going on here.
Firstly, God establishes the dimension of time. In the beginning. We are not an infinite dimension but a finite one. It has a beginning and if it has a beginning it will most certainly have an end. The apostle Peter tells us something of that event.
Secondly, God created the heavens and the earth. Before that, there was nothing. Nothing! God created something out of nothing. Think about that! Imagine baking a cake without ingredients. You have a driving, burning desire to bake a cake but you have no flour or eggs or butter. You can’t bake a cake out of nothing, but God can. How? He speaks!
The authority of God is so great, so powerful, so majestic, so utterly holy, so righteous that even nothing cannot resist it. Dwell for a moment on “nothing”. Surely it’s more than the absence of “something”? To say, for example, “there is nothing there,” implies there is something, however intangible, against which to deduce that. A statement such as “the box is empty and has nothing in it” still requires a box. For humans, nothing has no meaning apart from something. But when God created the heavens and the earth He did it out of a genuine nothing. How do we know this?
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
God speaks and out of nothing (please do really think about that) something is created. Out of nothing! It will frazzle your mind. Nothing is caused to become something. Here it’s the heavens and the earth, later it’s a coin in the mouth of a fish, or water from a barren rock.
My purpose is only to build your faith. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is impossible for God. It must be true because it was Jesus Who said it; it came from the same mouth as that which created the heavens and the earth.
Mark 10:27 But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.”
We who are children of God are trusted by the Lord to handle His Word creatively.
Isaiah 51:15 But I am the Lord your God,
Who divided the sea whose waves roared—
The Lord of hosts is His name.
16 And I have put My words in your mouth;
I have covered you with the shadow of My hand,
That I may plant the heavens,
Lay the foundations of the earth,
And say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’ ”
Jeremiah 5:14 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts:
“Because you speak this word,
Behold, I will make My words in your mouth fire,
And this people wood,
And it shall devour them.
15 Behold, I will bring a nation against you from afar,
O house of Israel,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 1:9 Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me:
“Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms,
To root out and to pull down,
To destroy and to throw down,
To build and to plant.”
Now there is food for thought.
God bless you all.
