Conclusion

Creation is peerless, vast, mysterious, immeasurable, personal, infinite. What an astonishingly rich treasure chest  filled with profoundly intricate detail beckoning inquiry, investigation and discovery.  The Bible tells us (Genesis 3: 16-19 and Romans 8: 20-23) that rebellion and sin brought a curse which caused the world to sustain cataclysmic damage resulting in devastation, deterioration and decay – a situation causing some people to consider some designs as not benevolent. But even a fallen design evidences design that originally had a great Master Designer.

Our world and beyond evidences grand schemes and plans continually revealing endless perfection, absolute beauty, and wondrously diverse, majestic Divine art to engage our minds, enrich our lives, ignite imagination, and delight every sense with its incredible splendor.  The beauty of God’s life surrounds us and infuses our everyday existence.  God was, is, and ever shall be the best explanation for the origin of life, for your life and my life.  This truth is satisfying to the mind and soul.  To embrace it can feel like a welcome rest, like finding ones place. Coming to Jesus is going home, finding our true lasting place where we belong. To find ones place with God as part of His intended Creation is far beyond evaluating cosmological theories, is more than arriving at plausible conclusions about origins.  Believing in God as our personal Creator and receiving Jesus as Savior answers life’s largest questions and speaks to our deepest longings to know – Who am I?  Why am I here?  Who made me? Where will I go when I die?  Is this life all there is?  What is the purpose of life?

The Bible tells us Creation came into being at God’s command from nothing.  “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”  -Hebrews 11: 3 (NIV).  Our marvelous, beautiful living world engages and surprises us with its many mysteries, secrets, spectacles and wonders to behold and savor.  The universe is precise and fine-tuned. It reveals complex order and elegance.  The earth was created to support the complexity of life.  Though there are many vast visible and invisible forces and large processes at play that escape our senses and knowledge, we must remember that the symphony of planet earth does not function autonomously.  It is upheld. Creation in all its beautiful, intricate phenomena depend on the Creator’s sustaining active power for its continued existence and operation.  Almighty God brought this universe and all it contains into being.  He is responsible for its origin. He is the Supreme Source and Owner. All that is expresses His goodness, wisdom, power, authority, grace, excellence and greatness. Look around. See all He created!  O holy awe!  Magnify the Lord!  Magnify means to declare great.  Magnify Him. Declare His greatness.  Magnify Him as greater than your difficulties.  He is greater.

Jesus is the Captain of Creation.  He is still in charge over His Creation.  He established the cosmos in orderly fashion and He upholds it by His power.  As the origin of created existence, He holds power over the physical realm; He exercised authority over it; and He continues to sustain Creation with His presence in it.  He did not detach from Creation but is ever involved.  From molecules to pine-cones and distant galaxies, all Creation is imprinted with the supernatural signature of the One who set in motion all ordered symmetry, proper proportion and harmony. He is the full expression of all that is good and all that is grand. Taste and see that the Lord is good -Psalm 34: 8a (NIV).  Ponder His greatness.  Enjoy the divine expression in the myriad details all around us.  We see limitless power in the hand of the Master Artist who spread vast dizzying distances in space between far-away planets and twinkling stars. Isaiah encouraged man to “Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars?  He brings them out like an army, one after another, calling each by name.  Because of his great power and incomparable strength, not a single one is missing.” – Isaiah 40: 26 (NLT).  He blessed us with grand earthly landscapes glowing with shimmering light and overflowing with riches untold that engage our senses and nourish our souls.

Jesus performed many great miracles and healings. Here are some examples: At His command, wind and stormy sea obey Him: “And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with waves: but he was asleep. (24)  And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord save us; we perish. (25)  And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm” (26)  -Matthew 8: 24-26 (KJV).  Jesus cursed a fig tree bearing no fruit and it withered. “And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever.  And presently the fig tree withered away.” -Matthew 21: 19 (KJV).  In John 2: 1-11 (KJV), He turned water into wine at the wedding in Cana.  He walked on water: “So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship; and they were afraid. (19)  But he saith unto them, It is I; be not afraid.” (20)  -John 6: 19-20 (KJV).  In Matthew 14: 17-21 and Mark 6: 38-44, Jesus fed a crowd of thousands with only five loaves and two fishes, and after all had eaten, there remained twelve full baskets.  In Mark 3: 1-6, He healed a man’s withered hand.  In Luke 17: 14, He cleansed 10 lepers.  In Matthew 17: 14-18, He healed a demoniac boy.  In Luke 18: 42, He gave sight to the blind beggar.  In John 11: 1-46, Jesus brought Lazarus, a man dead for 4 days, back to life. Even the dead obeyed the words of Jesus! 

God is: Everlasting. Unending. Immortal. Infinite. Immense. Unlimited in time and space.  King David exclaims: Great is our Lord, and of great power: His understanding is infinite. -Psalm 147: 5 (KJV). His existence is eternal:  For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity… -Isaiah 57: 15 (KJV).  God is from everlasting: Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.  Psalm 90: 2 (KJV).  But who is able to build a temple for him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him? -2 Chronicles 2: 6 (NIV). Everything in heaven and earth is His:  Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours.  -1 Chronicles 29: 11 (NIV).  You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever.  -Psalm 16: 11 (NLT).

Our heavenly Father loved us from the beginning.  We were in His mind before He formed us in our mother’s body.  We belong to Him. True faith is not just believing facts about Jesus.  It is personal truth that exists in the person of Jesus Christ.  True inner faith responds with love, obedience and trust.  Jesus Christ, the origin of created things, becomes our desire. We don’t just believe in Jesus, we belong in and belong to Him.  He calls us friends.  What a precious privilege!

We are imagers of God made to bear His image to the world.  We bear witness to the beauty of Jesus.  We are appointed to partake in and oversee His Creation.  We belong to our Creator; we are called by His name.  For I am called by thy name O Lord of hosts!  As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you.  -Jeremiah 15: 16 (NET).  Nothing we do can earn God’s grace or mercy. We can’t earn eternity with God. We’re plainly told Jesus is the only way to salvation and heaven:  Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.  Acts 4: 12 (KJV).  As the Creator, God rightfully owns heaven and earth and all who dwell in it, thus He’s the only One who has the right to determine the way of salvation as well as the outcome of those who reject His one and only path to salvation.  The only plan given in the God’s Word  names only one name: Jesus Christ.  For whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.  -Romans 10: 13 (KJV).  Those not in the shelter of salvation in Jesus will know only separation from God the Father and heaven.

-WARNING ABOUT A SIGNIFICANT TRUTH YOU MUST NOT IGNORE-

Here is an important truth it is to our peril to ignore:  Man is without excuse when it comes to knowing God.  All men have been given 2 irrefutable “proofs” of God and His creative power: 1) The internal evidence or inner witness of man’s own God-given conscience; and 2) the external evidence of the signature of God in the wonders of His Creation.  Sure, supernatural interventions happen, but miracles are not needed to see evidence for God.

Creation proclaims the glory of God. The Bible makes known the profound truth that God has revealed Himself to us through the voice of the created universe, and man will be accountable for his response to this truth.  The created order is a divine message that speaks to us without words. His power can be seen; it is discernible.  Through God’s self-revelation from Creation, man can “know God.”  In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul affirms man can know the truth about God:  For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. (19).  Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse; (20) -Romans 1: 19-20 (RSV).  King David exclaims:  The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. (1)  Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. (2)  There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. (3)  Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the end of the world. (4)  -Psalm 19: 1-4 (NIV).  God’s world-filling voice is still speaking to us.

O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.  -Psalm 34: 3 (KJV).