Recreating Creation
“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” Job 38:4-7 (ESV)
4.5 Billion years ago a great big sphere was created from a whole bunch of gases swirling around in a circle. Then from overhead the magician Merlin lifted his staff and said those secret magic words, “Abracadabra.” This started a chain of events known as “The Great Osmosis.” In that great moment, there in a pool of really nasty rain water two amino acids looked at each and said, “What the hey, let us create some really cool things that we could call fossils and people will think they are like millions of years old. They will spend millions of dollars and a great deal of time trying to figure them out. All the while never once looking towards the real Creator of the Universe. This will be a really cool joke to play on God’s creation.”
Sometimes I think this is how the History Channel should really tell us how the earth was made. I have been involved in some great debates over the Creation moment and the notions of a young earth versus an old earth but when I watch “How The Earth Was Made” I just gotta stop and wonder. Even the notion that we are really some sort of “Extraterrestrial” experiment gets discussed on some nights. I have previously joked about how we are all related to “Marvin the Martian” of Looney Tunes fame but even in that some men seem to be content with entertaining those thoughts and not resting in what we find in the Genesis account. Whether mankind wants to admit or not, he rewrites history to satisfy his most recent theory and all the while God’s Word hasn’t changed one iota.
Sometime ago, the Men’s Bible study I am involved with decided that we needed to take a look at Lee Strobel’s study titled, “A Case for a Creator.” That study took us to the farthest outlook into the universe’s beginning to the farthest in look at the cells that make us up. There was such an in-depth look at the whole of creation that I was becoming quite content that how God did it was just going to be none of my business. The thing that gets me is how important it really is to some of my Christian brothers. So important, that I think it takes away from the Gospel message. After all doesn’t the Book of Genesis really give us a look at why we need to be reconciled to Him rather than how He made a tree?
The thing to really note here is that there is only two chapters of one book totally dedicated to the Creation moment but we got oodles of stuff written concerning prophecy. And even with all that prophecy stuff we still seem to constantly get tainted information that has lead us to some sort of ruin. I wonder if the thing that needs to be understood amongst our Brethren, and even the world as a whole, is that in all things God creates. And we are called, as Christian men, to insure that the general call goes out into an unsaved world. And that means for us to be that walking Bible that the world has chosen to read rather for them to pick the Book up itself.
As much as it is seemingly necessary to involve ourselves with the debates over the Creation moment, Nebuchadnezzar’s dream or why those seven letters had to be written to those particular churches, the one fact remains clear…at least to me. And that is no matter if it was intelligent design or a big bang, I think God is more interested in what you are going to do with His Creation rather than trying to figure out how it came into being. We should remain the simple beings we were meant to be and just glorify Him like we were created to be and not try to solve the mysteries of the universe. Would understanding why a star exploded help you get into glory? Probably not!! Chris Hughes is a graduate of the Colony of Mercy and a member of the Freedom Fighter writing team
Compass Pointers: “For the humbling of Job, God here shows him his ignorance, even concerning the earth and the sea. As we cannot find fault with God's work, so we need not fear concerning it. The works of His providence, as well as the work of creation, never can be broken; and the work of redemption is no less firm, of which Christ himself is both the Foundation and the Corner-stone. The church stands as firm as the earth.” Matthew Henry Concise
Anchored to the Rock: It is better … that the hearers should wish the prayer had been longer, than spend half or a considerable part of the time wishing it was over. John Newton
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