Well, good morning, saints. It’s a marvelous, wonderful day. Springtime is here. I can tell because my allergies are going wild. I do not even have to look at the trees outside to realize it. So may the Lord be gracious this morning as we get through our time together.
Let’s begin with a word of prayer.
Oh, Lord, I have that sense of total inadequacy to share what is on my heart this morning because, Lord, the adjectives are not enough. My language skills are so lacking, Lord, to be able to share.
And so we would ask that You would give grace and mercy this morning as we look at Your Word, as we hear Your Word. We would ask that the Holy Spirit might really touch our hearts, open our eyes. Lord, we are so grateful that You have not left us just to our mental capacities alone, but You have given us the Holy Spirit to really open our eyes and ears, to touch the reality of what is in this book.
We pray this morning, Lord, that we would be enlightened; that we would somehow come into a greater measure of seeing Who You are as a result of looking into Your Word. We ask in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Well, this morning I would like to begin with two Scriptures. The first one is Genesis 1:1. That is an easy one to find: Genesis, chapter 1, verse 1.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Let us also read from Romans, Romans chapter 1, verse 19.
Because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it unto them.
For the invisible things of Him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even His everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse:
Because that, knowing God, they glorified Him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.
And now let us read from the book of Colossians, one of the most extraordinary passages of Scripture in the book. Starting in Colossians chapter 1—everything is in chapter 1. That is probably appropriate, since we are talking about the beginning.
It says in Colossians 1:15, speaking of Christ:
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
For in Him were all things created, in the heavens and upon the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through Him, and unto Him;
And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
And He is the head of the body, the church: Who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence.
For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in Him should all the fullness dwell.
You know, as I read that last Scripture, that really would be a marvelous Scripture just to meditate on for about two weeks every day, to really get the depths of what is revealed in the Scripture. I really do feel inadequate to be able to share even this one Scripture. I can read it, but to share the depths of it is quite another thing.
But this morning, I want to return to a series that I started a number of weeks ago on God revealing Himself. That is from God’s side: God reveals Himself. From man’s side, our message would be, “to know Him.” That was Paul in Philippians 3, the theme verse for the conference. Paul’s great passion was to know Christ.
So it is our hope that, in going through these Scriptures and these messages, God will give us more of a glimpse and insight into Who He really is—not what we think He is, but Who He really is.
It is interesting. Actually, God is Spirit. You cannot see Him. It says He is the invisible God. He is a mystery and, in a sense, incomprehensible. Job said that He is an incomprehensible God. That means that really, it is not possible ever to come to the end of knowing Him, of learning about Him. He is incomprehensible, and He is a mystery.
But, brothers and sisters, what is so amazing to me—and I will use that adjective quite a few times today because I am so poor in vocabulary that I do not have a lot of adjectives—but amazing to me is that God Almighty desires to reveal Himself to His creation. That is His desire.
And He wants to show man in particular Who He is—not only Who He is from an outward kind of look at God as the Almighty, but knowing Who He is on the inside, knowing His heart, knowing His passions, knowing His love. Knowing Who He is.
And God has provided a key to this mystery of knowing Him. It is the key. Without that key, you will never really know God. You might know and learn some things about God, but you will never know God without this key. And what is this key? I shared on this last time. What is this key that unlocks this mystery to Who God is?
Brothers and sisters, I just want to emphasize: God wants us to have more than a mental, outward knowledge of Who He is. He wants us to have an inward, spiritual knowledge of Who He is. And He has provided an amazing key for us to unlock this mystery. It is a key that you have to have. You cannot do without this key, or you will never know Who God is.
What is the key? In Colossians 1:15, which we just read, it says Christ is the image of the invisible God. In other words, He is the outshowing of Who the invisible God is.
That is part of the Son of God’s purpose and ministry: to reveal Who God is. He came to earth to reveal the Father to us, to bring us to the Father. Remember, He says, “No man can come to the Father except by Me.”
I want to be very clear, because there are many people in Christianity today. They say they are Christians. I honestly have doubts, because they say there are other ways of finding God. You can go to Buddha. You can go to Islam. You can go to meditation and learn about God and Who God is.
But I think the Word of God is very clear. There is only one way to know God, and that is to know Jesus Christ, because He is the outward showing of this invisible God. That is one of His purposes, one of His jobs, if you want to put it that way: to be able to demonstrate and to show Who God really is.
It says He is the image of the invisible God. This word image, brothers and sisters, in Greek has the whole sense that it is more than just an outward sense of Who God is. Image in this sense means that He comes out from God. Of course, we know that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is a part of the Godhead.
In John 1:1, a verse that we all know so well, it says:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The fact that Jesus Christ is given the name Word should indicate to us that it is His ministry to articulate, to show forth, to speak, and tell Who God is. That is His ministry: to make God known to man.
I think that is just amazing. I am not so sure if I was God and I knew Who I was and who y’all are, that I would just say, “Mm, I am not so sure I want to give all My heart over to these ones.” You know, why should I do that? I am God.
Brothers and sisters, this is Who God is. This is your God: One Who desires to reveal Himself to you. He wants you to know His heart.
I know in relationships on earth, in our earthly relationships, generally speaking, as we go through our lives, we only find really a few people with whom we are truly willing to share our hearts. Is that not really true? I mean, there are things you share with other people, but not the deep things, not the things that are really down in your heart.
They are reserved for those where you get that sense that they understand, that they are really concerned and interested. And yet God, knowing who we are, has chosen to reveal Himself in this very deep way to all who desire to know Him.
Let me say it another way. God is willing to reveal Himself to you to the extent of what you are willing to respond to Him, to the extent to which you are willing to give yourself to know Him. That is how much He is willing to show you Who He is.
So may God give us that passion that He gave Paul: “That I might know Him.”
Jesus Himself said, “I and the Father are one. He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.” Very simple, very clear. God has chosen to reveal Himself through His Son Jesus—more accurately, in His Son Jesus.
In addition to this great key of Jesus Christ—knowing Christ in order to know God, the key which is absolutely necessary—God has provided us something else that we might know Him. It is this Bible, the Word of God, the inspired Word of God.
As I shared on this last time, I shared purposely some prophecies that have been fulfilled—prophecies that were made, either written by Moses fifteen hundred years before Christ, which would be thirty-five hundred years ago, or by later prophets up to about six hundred years before Christ.
These were prophecies about the fact that He would be born of a woman, be born of a virgin, be born in Bethlehem, that He would die on a cross. These prophecies were made before crucifixion was even thought of by man as a means of punishment.
But we read in the Scriptures, in the Psalms, a perfect description of our Lord’s death on Calvary’s cross, and that He would be raised from the dead and set up His kingdom. I think I gave the odds on at least eight of those Scriptures being fulfilled: one hundred million to one.
Now, the more I have read the Bible, brothers and sisters, no genius, however great he might be on this earth, could ever put this Bible together. It is indeed the hand of God. It is the inspired Word of God.
May the enemy never use anything of man’s philosophy or teaching to shake you from the fact that this indeed is God’s Word.
Think of what is going on in the earth today, even with the nations. How God prophesied through His prophets that the nation of Israel would be scattered, but one day He would gather them back together; and in 1948 that happened.
And when the time of the Gentiles was full, Jerusalem would come back under full control of the Jewish nation. That happened in 1967, in my lifetime anyway, and in the lifetime of many of you here. In other words, this is a very relevant book. It is a book in which prophecies are still being fulfilled.
Brothers and sisters, this is the inspired Word of God that God has given us. The purpose of this Word is to reveal God, is to reveal Jesus Christ. It is a revelation of Jesus Christ.
If you approach the Bible from any other way—when you study the Bible, and you can study it in many ways—but, brothers and sisters, if you are not looking to find out Who Jesus Christ is, what His work on Calvary is, what He has done, and what His purpose is, you have missed the whole purpose of the book.
Now, there are many good things in this book, as I spoke of last time. There are many things you can find about family life, how to live family life, how to run your businesses, how to be a better parent. All of these things are in here.
But if that is the focus, then it is off center. The full purpose for which God intended this book was a revelation of His Son Jesus, that we might know Him.
Oh, brothers and sisters, let us not get off center in these days. I hear so many messages out there on prosperity, on all of these things that are fundamentally man-centered and for man. Some of these are very good and very helpful, but, brothers and sisters, they are indeed not the intent of what Scripture is.
Scripture is to reveal to you Who God is. It is a manual. You know, when you buy an automobile, if you look in a new one—if you look in the pocket of the car, for ones that still have a pocket—there is a manual in there. Now, how many read that manual?
I knew there were some brothers that would read that manual. I have read mine, not thoroughly, but you know what? I remember one night I said, “Anne, why did you not turn your fog lights on?” She was following me, and it was a foggy night.
I said, “Why did you not turn your fog lights on?” She said, “I do not know how. I do not know where the button is.” I looked at the thing and said, “You know what? I cannot see anything that says ‘fog’ on it either.”
So I got the manual out, and sure enough, I got there and it showed me exactly what to do. And I showed her how to do it.
Well, the point being: Jesus Christ is the revelation of God, but this book is like that manual. It helps us to really understand more about Him.
And not only is it like a manual, brothers and sisters, it is not just a manual. The manual you get with a car just gives you knowledge. But in the Bible, through the work of the Holy Spirit, you get spiritual knowledge about God.
In other words, it does not just tell you about outward things of God; it tells you the inward heart of God. Really, only the Holy Spirit can reveal that to us.
You know, many scholars have talked about Jesus and Who He is. Until you come to that fundamental revelation that only the Holy Spirit can give you—that He is the Christ, the Son of the living God—you know nothing about God.
This morning, I opened the Scripture with Genesis 1:1:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
I think that is just an amazing piece of Scripture. The reason being that the Hebrew word bara, used for “created,” according to the scholars, means that He made something out of nothing.
He created the heavens and the earth out of nothing.
I do not know how many of you have ever tried to create anything out of nothing, but I doubt you ever have, because you do not believe it can be done in the first place. I mean, you always have to have something to work with, right?
Brothers and sisters, God is not just a maker and a builder. He is the Creator. Rightfully so, in my opinion, He is the only One that really can ever be called Creator, because He made the heavens and earth out of nothing.
It was in His heart, and the Word spoke, and the heavens and earth came into existence. Amazing. Creator.
You know, if you continue to read in Genesis 1 and 2, and you read through what is called the creation story, you should realize that the rest of this, whatever is made basically comes out of stuff already in existence. That should tell us something. Genesis 1:1 is very unique.
He created the heavens and earth out of nothing. But we find in verse 2 that everything had become dark and chaotic and without order. Does that sound like something God would make?
I would propose that when God does something, it is good and it is created beautiful. It was created in the beauty and in the way in which His heart and mind wanted it to be.
But something came. Something altered that, particularly in the solar system in which we live, the one in which Earth is. Something very drastic came in. Something happened. I want to share more about that next time, and I will not say much more than this: brothers and sisters, Creator—something out of nothing. He brought the universe into being in all its beauty and all of its glory.
Once again, let me get the Scripture. John 1:1-3 says:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through Him; and without Him was not anything made that hath been made.
Now, your Bible may say, “Nothing was made without Him.” Nothing came into being. But once again, this Greek word that may be interpreted “made” in your Bible—in mine, “came into being”—means He made something out of nothing.
So, both in the Hebrew and in the Greek, in the Old and the New Testament, speaking of the creation of the heavens and the earth, it says it was made out of nothing. Brothers and sisters, it came out of God’s heart. It came out of Who He was.
He is Creator. He is Almighty. And, brothers and sisters, that is why I struggle so much this morning. How can you relate the awesomeness of God—Creator—being able just out of His heart and mind to think, “This is what I would like to have,” and there it is?
He is Almighty. Who are you? Who am I? We are created beings, brothers and sisters.
You know, man makes many things—amazing things, as a matter of fact. I happen to be of that generation that saw the first man on the moon. I thought that was quite an accomplishment, to be able to actually put a man on the moon with the development of rocket science and all that happened during the fifties and sixties.
Today we have satellites floating around the earth. They can see a license plate on the back of a car. I think that is amazing. They have the Hubble telescope, and since they put that telescope up there, they have discovered eons of other galaxies similar to our own. They cannot seem to find the end of what this universe is. It is just an amazing universe.
But man has been able to do that. He has even been able to clone animals using DNA. But man is yet to make something out of nothing. God alone is Creator.
You know, man should be able to realize that. Man should be able to look outside at the trees, the difference in the trees, the leaves, the flowers that are beginning to grow, the blossoms that are blooming, the stars in the sky.
You know, this morning I got up and went out for a walk. One of the joys of early in the morning is the birds are out, and they are really active, and they are all singing.
Well, I went down the road, and there was a chickadee, there were robins, there were redbirds, there was a hawk, there were crows, and they were all singing their own song. Now, frankly, I do not particularly enjoy the crow sound, but really what they were doing—it was not a song they were singing—they were just letting the rest of the crows know that I was there. Their warning system that they had.
But, you know, I did think about the Lord. I said, “Lord, You are amazing. All these little different animals, and each one with a distinctive sound. They are all birds, but they are different.”
Some are so beautiful and pretty, and others are just—I love little chickadees because they are always—well, you know, they are just little teeny birds that make such a great noise. So, I mean, it was amazing.
And then I looked in the western sky, and the moon was still there. We had, I guess, a full moon or close to a full moon last night. I saw it coming up last night. It was beautiful, absolutely gorgeous.
Does that remind you of God in any way? I mean, I looked at the moon and said, “You know, Lord, the moon is very much like Your church. It is not the originator of the light, but it reflects the light. And the glory of God can be seen in the moon, in His church.”
I look, brothers and sisters—and I have said this before—but there are very few nights, at least nights at which the stars are out and you can see them, that I do not go out and the first thing I do is look for the Big Dipper.
And I find the North Star from the Big Dipper. I look at the North Star and say, “Lord, that thing has been up there for thousands of years, and all the rest of the stars have been just circling around it for all these years, and it is still there.” Amazing.
To me, the North Star is like the center around which everything turns, and it reminds me of God. It reminds me of Christ, the center of everything, the center on which our lives turn.
But, you know, it is glorious because actually the North Star is not that easy to find. It is a very dim star in the sky. But the Big Dipper, usually you can see it. You can just take a line off the top two stars in the Big Dipper, and it always points to the North Star.
And I said, “Lord, the Big Dipper is just like the church. It should always be pointing to the center, to Christ. It does not point to itself. It points to Christ.”
Well, brothers and sisters, I say that man should respond to this creation, realizing that there is a Creator. If you just take a moment—you know, as they said when I grew up as a child—take time to smell the roses.
Hey, we live in a busy world, do we not? I do not know. Have you ever taken time just to take a rose and just look at it and appreciate the texture, the beauty, how it is made?
You know, the Lord said, “Consider the lilies of the field.” I do not know of many flowers that are more beautiful than lilies, and so well adorned, as He said, so well adorned. The Creator made these things.
Your Creator and my Creator made these things.
Romans 1:19-20. I have read it, but let us look at it again.
Because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it unto them.
For the invisible things of Him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even His everlasting power and divinity.
Therefore, man is without excuse.
God said that in every man—in every man, no exception, brothers and sisters—when he takes time to consider the universe, there is something within him that says there is a higher power. There is something greater than man: a divinity, a Creator.
And He is all-powerful, because all of this has been made by Him. Can you make a tree? Yes, you can grow one from a seed, but can you make the seed?
He is Creator. And He says, “You might be the most avowed atheist in this world, but God will say, ‘Guilty. You really did know. There was something in you.’”
There is no excuse for any man not to, at the very minimum, see that there has to be a God.
And that is quite another story in man’s quest to know God, because the main failing of man is that he has tried to make God in his own image. That is why we see the statues and the idols. We see people going around saying things about God which, frankly, are not even true, because man looks at himself and says, “Well, God has got to be like man.” And that is not true.
His eternal power and Godhead should be known. If you do not have a sense, when you walk out at night and look at those stars, that there is a God—brothers and sisters, the Scripture is so true that says:
Because that, knowing God, they glorified Him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.
I would just like to suggest, brothers and sisters, that you take time to smell the roses, that you take time to appreciate God in the universe.
Just think of the sun. There is nowhere the sun does not reach on this earth, and it provides heat for us. It is amazing, this atmosphere that God has created for us, everything that man might be able to live here.
Anyway, let me move on. I just want to say: if there is anyone in this room who says they do not believe in God, I feel sorry, because God says you are without excuse.
He said anybody with the simplest of minds should be able to perceive, in looking at this universe, that there is a Creator—One Who can make something out of nothing, the all-powerful One.
But, you know, man wants to run his own life. Man does not want a God over his life, so he rejects that thought. If he rejects it long enough and deep enough, his heart can become so darkened that he never can be awakened to the light.
Now, I want to be careful there, because I also believe that there is no one that God cannot touch. But there has to be a response on our side.
You know, in recent years, there has been what they call intelligent design. How many have heard about that? Intelligent design.
There has been a big row in many states because some of the state legislatures were saying, “We want our schools to teach intelligent design along with Darwin’s theory of evolution.”
I think it was a few states that actually voted to do that. But for the most part, everybody said, “Ah, that is just a back door.” And truly, I guess it is.
But what that really means is this. I saw one of their CDs, and it was very interesting. Basically, all it says is what we just read in Romans 1: that it is obvious that there is a God.
What they are doing is saying, by deductive reasoning, this theory of evolution—that man came out of the sea and everything evolved from some sea form of life—it all came out of deductive reasoning.
That basically means that if you observe things long enough and they have a pattern long enough, you can finally deduce that there is something true about this pattern, and you describe what that truth is.
To give you an example, if you are walking down by the seashore, if you go down to the beach and see footprints in the sand, through deductive reasoning you can say, “Ah, somebody walked along here not long ago. A person has been here.” That is deductive reason.
These proponents of intelligent design are basically saying: if you look at anything in this universe that has been made or that is in existence, look at how it is designed.
I do not care if it is an egg. You know about an egg. Friday night I mentioned an egg because one of the children had an egg. If you take an egg and press on the very ends of the egg, it is very difficult to break it. Now, if you press on the side, you can break it very easily. God has designed that egg that way.
I think of bees making honey and all the processes they go through. All of these things tell us that everything had to be designed with an intelligence behind it. It just did not happen.
Well, most of you I do not have to convince of this. But there is a divine design, a divine Creator. That is what is on my heart this morning. When it says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” we need to see God as the Creator. We need to see Him as the Almighty.
Let me move on. In Colossians 1, let us look at that Scripture again. I said it before: this is such a tremendous passage, because it describes what creation is all about—the Who and the why of creation, the purpose of creation, how it came about—in these few Scriptures.
But it begins by saying, verse 15, Christ, Who is the image of the invisible God. I have already shared on that, but Christ is the exact image of God, not just a replication, but out of God. He is God. He can fully represent God. It says in the other Scripture, all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him bodily.
And then it says He is the firstborn of all creation. Now, what does that mean? He is the firstborn of all creation. Brothers and sisters, He was not created.
Some people have taken this to mean that He was actually a created being, but He was not created. That basically is heresy.
What it means is that He is priority. He is number one. He is first. He is the initiator of creation. He is sovereign. He is Lord over it all.
That is what it means when it says He is the firstborn of all creation. All creation came out of Him. He is the Almighty.
This Lord Who has saved us, Who loves us—He is Almighty.
And it says He is the firstborn of all creation because—why is He Lord of all? Why is He the authority of the universe? Because by Him were created all things: the things in heaven and the things on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, lordships, principalities, or authorities. All things have been created by Him.
It says here, “Because by Him all things were created.” That is why He is Lord.
Now, this Scripture is most instructive and interesting, because that word—it says, “By Him were all things created.” In the Greek, it really means, “In Him all things were created.” Even in the Darby, if you look at it, it will say literally it means “in Him.”
Now, when the scholars put these Scriptures together and they got to this, they knew that the word said “in Him,” but they did not understand it. It did not seem to make sense to them. Surely the worlds were made by Him. In fact, later on in the same Scripture, it does say, once again, that it was made by Him.
So what is the significance of everything being made in Him? Because, brothers and sisters, He is not only the authority, He is not only the Lord, He is not only the owner: He is the Architect.
Now, let me explain what it means for the worlds to be created in Him. I think those that have an artistic nature will understand this best.
What an artist does is try to take something that they have read, something that they have seen, and create on a painting what they have seen, what is in their heart. Often it represents something of who they are.
It is the same with writers. It is the same with all these people that we tend to call creative ones—only one Creator. In other words, what they make or what they do is because it is really a part of them. It is a part of their own character and nature.
Musicians who can make up songs and music, it is the same way. It comes from within them, something in them. It is not just a mental exercise: “Oh, I need to write this song.” No, it is because probably they have experienced something in their life, and they are able to share that through a song.
So that is basically what it means: when the universe was made, it was made to be a reflection of Who Jesus Christ is, of Who God is. It was made out of Him. It is an expression of Who He is. That is why it is important, I think, to be aware of the creation.
You know, even the Lord said He is the Morning Star. What is the significance of that? Well, if you get up early in the morning, you understand the significance of Him being the Morning Star.
Right before daybreak, you see this brilliant, bright star in the eastern sky. Most all the other stars, as the sun begins to rise, as twilight comes, are blocked out. But this one star is so brilliant, you can still see it. It is the bright and Morning Star.
Of course, once the sun rises, even it is blocked out. So you have to get up early to see the Morning Star. In other words, if you really want to see the Morning Star, you need to be diligent. You need to be looking. You need to be aware.
The Morning Star. So all things come out of Him.
Here was my thought on this: I want us to see God as Creator. Brothers and sisters, Isaiah says He is the Potter; we are the clay. And Isaiah goes on to say, “How can the clay say, ‘He made me not’?” How can the clay say, “He made me not”?
What came to mind, brothers and sisters—oh, the shamefulness and the arrogance of man. How anyone can say, “God did not make me.” He is the Potter, and we are the clay. He is sovereign. He is alone in that.
Not only is He the owner and the Architect, but it says all things have been created by Him. In this sense, it means exactly that. That is in verse 16, right before—or it might be in verse 17 in your Bible—“All things have been created by Him.”
In other words, He is not only the owner and the Architect; He is the Builder. He is the foreman and the superintendent. He made it all.
And then it goes on to say, “All things subsist together by Him.” All things subsist together by Him.
Now, when I was taking physics in high school and college, I learned that there was such a thing as gravity. Gravity is what basically holds you to this earth. It is because this earth is so big in mass that that mass—the bigger mass you are, the more you draw.
So that means bigger people like William have a tendency to draw people to them quicker than I would. Now, that is interesting. I do not think there is that much difference in our mass, William.
But the bottom line is that the earth is such a tremendous mass, it does have that drawing power, and they call it gravity. They are saying, “Okay, the earth has gravity, Neptune has gravity, Pluto has gravity. All these planets have gravity, the galaxy does, and all these things out there, these millions of galaxies, all in perfect balance.”
Now, is that not amazing? That gravity did that.
All I have got to say is, who made gravity? I mean, gravity is just a description of a principle of life that He has put in this earth and in the galaxies.
It reveals, brothers and sisters, that He is not only Creator, but that all things subsist by Him, that He holds all things together. When He is not holding something together, it disintegrates into nothingness. It deteriorates.
Brothers and sisters, I want to be very practical about this. Whenever Christ is not holding something together, it falls apart. I do not care whether it is your life personally, in our marriages, in our relationships, in all of our activities.
It does not mean that we will not have trouble just because we know Christ. I do not want to leave that impression. The impression I want to leave with you is that He holds all things together.
He holds it all together—all the stars, all the worlds.
You know, it goes on next to say He is the head of the church. Now, do you not think that is a bit amazing? When He is talking about being the Creator, holding all things together, everything being made out of Him, all of a sudden He says He is the head of the church.
What does that have to do with creation?
What it has to do with it, brothers and sisters, is a major part of the purpose of creation. We think sometimes, as Christians, that man himself is the end of God’s plan. But man is not.
Man He loves dearly. He gave His life for you. He loves you individually. But there is something bigger than you yourself. He is the head of the body.
The purpose of creation is that God wanted His Son to have a bride, of which He would be the head, and the bride would be the body. The purpose of creation.
You know, time is almost up, and there is more that needs to be said about these Scriptures. But I think I am going to wait, because today what was really on my heart was that we would recognize that God is God, that God is the Creator. He is the only Creator.
He is Lord, not only of this universe, but Lord of your life. He holds all things together. He holds you in His hand, brothers and sisters, and you are very dear to Him.
Lord, we come to You today. Lord, I told You I would struggle with being able to describe Your immensity and Who You are as Creator.
Lord Jesus, as we go away from this place, as we observe Your universe, as we observe the things that You have made by Your hands, Lord, may we begin to have our eyes open to see the immensity of our God, the glory of our God, the greatness of our God—Who He is.
Lord, the psalmist has well said it:
What is man, that Thou art mindful of him?
But Lord, You were and You are. For that we are so grateful, Lord. Lord, please open our eyes to see Who You are. I pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.