Creative Power

All things were made through Him,

and without Him nothing was made that was made.

John 1:3

John has a way with words. It all seems so simple, and yet it's so deep. Jesus was the Word. He was in the beginning. He was with God. He was God. He was in the beginning with God. And through Him God made everything.

Everything that exists, everything that has ever existed or ever will exist, does so by the power of the spoken Word of God. Jesus was the breath and the sound and the voice of God. Jesus was the Word going forth from the presence of God to accomplish the Father's sovereign plan. We see it happening, witnessing from the darkness that first creative event when God simply was, when His Spirit hovered over the face of the deep. And then God said...

We know what He said. But John tells us in His Gospel that it was more than just speaking. When God uttered the command from His presence, the Word went forth, second person in the trinity in action because God spoke His will and His mind. The Word turned on the lights. The Word separated the ocean from the sky. The Word brought dry land out of the deep and caused it to produce plant life. The Word brought fish and birds from the sea, brought animals from the land. The Word brought forth man from the dust and breathed into Him the breath of life. All those things which God created He did so through the power of the Spoken Word.

Psalm 33:6 says that by the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.

Proverbs 8 personifies Wisdom as the creative agent of God, which is again the Spoken Word of God. Wisdom is the very mind, will and intention of God. Wisdom is the heart of God. Wisdom is that which framed the worlds and sustains them.

Paul writes in Colossians 1 that by the Spoken Word of God all things were created in heaven and on earth, both visible and invisible, even thrones, dominions, principalities and powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

Get a hold of that! Jesus is the Spoken Word of God, the Verbal Inspiration of God, the Creative Power of God in voice. By Him all things were created. Through Him all things were created. And for Him all things were created. This planet was not the random collection of space dust thrown together by a swirling mess following the big bang; life here was not a random collision of proteins to form the first amino acids, which are key to DNA, the building blocks of all life; humanity is not some kind of cosmic evolutionary byproduct. God made us by Christ, through Christ, and for Christ. We were put here to look like Him and to be like Him. And David says we are fearfully and wonderfully made!