“Show Me Your Glory” by Steve Lawson
Many books with hundreds of pages per book have been written to show that God created all things. Steve Lawson in the wonderful book we have been exploring this year needs only four paragraphs to lay out a convincing argument for creation. I would love to just copy Steve’s words, but that would violate copyright laws, so let me summarize.
As this section falls in a chapter titled “Supremely Reigning,” it comes as no surprise that it opens with the frank words, “As time began, God exercised His sovereign authority in the creation of the universe. In the free exercise of His will, God merely spoke, and everything came into existence out of nothing.” In two sentences Steve nails what we need about the big picture of creation. God as sovereign over all things spoke, as He was free to do, and out of nothing made all things. After quoting Job 38:4, “Where were you when I lad out the foundation of the earth?” we, like Job, “stand in awe of His completely sovereign wisdom.”
Steve then cites Psalm 33:6-9 as an account of how “God effortlessly brought everything into existence by the mere breath of His mouth.” Other Psalms like 104:5, 24 and 148:5 teaches us, “Creation bears indisputable witness to the irresistibly sovereign will of God.” Truly God alone deserves our praise for His act of creation.
The New Testament instructs us that Jesus, the Son, oversaw the forming of creation. Colossians 1:16 states, “For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and one earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities – all things have been created through Him and for Him.” The book of Hebrews in 1:2 teaches that Jesus “made the world.” Then in the great chapter of faith, 11:3 reminds us, “By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.”
Science continues to claim the hand of evolution and a big bang somehow produced the glorious creation we observe. This certainly is not fact. Nor is it theory or even a hypothesis. It is nothing more than conjecture or wishful thinking. It really must be seen as a foolish attempt to deny the Creator and to justify worshipping created things. It seeks to make man and his folly supreme over the sovereign God. Rejoice! Your sovereign has created all things! Pastor Gillikin