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The Creator of All That’s Been Made
Our God is the Creator. John 1:1–3 makes it clear that anything that was created; that is, anything that once didn’t exist but then existed, did so only through the action of the Lord.
Someone once asked the question, “Why is there something instead of nothing?” It is perhaps the most basic of all questions that could ever be asked. Read John 1:1–3. How does it answer that question?
This idea is interesting, too, in light of what is known as the Big Bang Theory, which teaches that our universe, instead of being eternal, as many believed through the millennia, actually came into existence billions of years ago. Whether the theory turns out to be true or false, many have seen it as evidence for a God, a Creator, because a lot of science, a lot of physics, and a lot of math equations were needed for the Big Bang to have ever occurred. And, as one scientist asked, “Who breathed fire into the equations?”
We know the answer, don’t we?
Scientists now speculate, too, that there are whole vast sections of the universe that we cannot see, that are filled with what is called dark matter and dark energy. What this should tell us, if nothing else, is that we are very limited in our view of what’s really out there.
Read Colossians 1:16, 17. What else—and who else—has God created that, at least for the most part, are beyond what we can see every day? What lessons should we draw from this about how humble we need to be regarding our knowledge of reality?
Notice, too, in those verses that not only were all these things created by God, they were also created “for Him.” What might that mean? How can we understand that? What should it mean for us to know that we, too, were created “for Him”?
| SUNDAY | April 3 |
Our God is the Creator. John 1:1–3 makes it clear that anything that was created; that is, anything that once didn’t exist but then existed, did so only through the action of the Lord.
Someone once asked the question, “Why is there something instead of nothing?” It is perhaps the most basic of all questions that could ever be asked. Read John 1:1–3. How does it answer that question?
This idea is interesting, too, in light of what is known as the Big Bang Theory, which teaches that our universe, instead of being eternal, as many believed through the millennia, actually came into existence billions of years ago. Whether the theory turns out to be true or false, many have seen it as evidence for a God, a Creator, because a lot of science, a lot of physics, and a lot of math equations were needed for the Big Bang to have ever occurred. And, as one scientist asked, “Who breathed fire into the equations?”
We know the answer, don’t we?
Scientists now speculate, too, that there are whole vast sections of the universe that we cannot see, that are filled with what is called dark matter and dark energy. What this should tell us, if nothing else, is that we are very limited in our view of what’s really out there.
Read Colossians 1:16, 17. What else—and who else—has God created that, at least for the most part, are beyond what we can see every day? What lessons should we draw from this about how humble we need to be regarding our knowledge of reality?
Notice, too, in those verses that not only were all these things created by God, they were also created “for Him.” What might that mean? How can we understand that? What should it mean for us to know that we, too, were created “for Him”?
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