Creator

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1, NKJV

 

Work with me a moment.  Go outside.  Take a look around you, a long, slow, careful look.  What do you see?

 

From my front porch, I can see acres and acres of soft green grass and fragrant clover.  The crape myrtles are leafing out.  The peach tree has blossoms on it that will, hopefully, become peaches.  The cows in the pastures around us are dropping gangly calves.  The birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees are thriving on this marvelous spring day. 

 

Looking upward, I behold the vast blue sky, swept with high wisps of cloud.  And last night, the black velvet night sparkled with countless diamonds of stars, their light reaching us from billions of miles away.

 

All that I see and everything I can't see were created by God.

 

In eternity past, there was only God.  Almighty, infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent.  Even those words fail to adequately define or describe Him, for the greatness that is God cannot truly be expressed in words.  There was timeless eternity, and then God started start.  Time began, and from nothing, God created everything.  From the foundation of His own self, he laid out the heavens and the earth, using nothing except His own creative power to do so.  He formed the atoms, fit the molecules together, fashioned the substance of everything that has ever been and ever will be, and flung it all into place.  From the tiniest quark to the farthest reaches of the universe, God actively brought into being the entirety of all that we know.  And He continues to span and hold it all in the palm of His hand.

 

That's the Creator who made us.  That's the Creator in whom I believe, who I desire to know personally.  That's the God I love.  Because after He finished making the universe, He made a special place for the one creation that He would make in His own image and after His own likeness.  The God who holds the universe had you and me in mind all along, but before He could create us, He had to create a place for us.  And He did it infinitely well.  We are not the accidental result of a random process of universal happenstance.  We were planned and prepared for, designed and produced by the Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth.  The All Powerful made us, the All Knowing made a plan for us, and the Always Present continually makes a way for us to know Him in an up-close and personal way.

 

All we have to do is open our eyes and see what God has done.  And when we understand just how infinitely and eternally powerful our God really is, then we will know that we can trust Him with everything in our lives.  He really does have the whole world in His hands.