Faith And Our Creator

"What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!"  - Jeremy Taylor

Sitting here at my desk, I can see a new batch of apartment buildings being built directly across the street. From the window in my third floor office, I've watched the process taking shape before my eyes since day one. It's been a great diversion from working, too!

If you've never seen a building go up from start to completion, I have to say that it's an interesting undertaking. Someone had to first design, or plan the building, workout all of the details before the actual construction could even start.

God is also a great designer, planner, and builder. In fact, He is the best there is. No one can come close to his Creation. Hebrews 11:3 tells us that the universe was framed or formed by Him. How do we know that it happened this way? After all, there were no human eyewitnesses around who could verify this, right?

I suppose if we try to reason this out we could come up with all sorts of clever theories and suppositions about the way things came about. But, when we do we rely on what we know; we depend our own corrupted human reasoning. One important element is left out.

If you read Hebrews 11:3 again, you will see that the verse begins with "through faith." Simple reasoning doesn't let us detect the Creator. Unlike man-made objects, there are no signs or plaques attached to anything God created, Still, we can see evidence of His handiwork all around us.

This is where we must turn to Scripture for clarification and verification. Scripture discloses who created all; it reveals the Creator. And, "through faith," we know that the world, even the universe, was created by God. We can trust that this happened because God's Word tells us so (Psalm 33:6).

What can't be grasped by way of our human senses requires some kind of evidential confirmation. On the other hand, whatever we haven't actually seen ourselves, even though the evidence for it is very compelling, is perceived through faith alone.

Christian faith believes itself to have the word of God Himself to support it (Genesis 1:1; John 1:3; Psalm 33:9). Some might call this "blind" faith. Blind means being unable to see or unwilling or unable to perceive or understand. 

This is true if you apply this definition to "human" senses. However, we're not talking about anything that is merely human. Faith can't be held to human rules or principles. Nor is it bound by the feeble parameters of human thought processes.

Faith in God can't be created in a lab, or designed on a computer. Christian faith relies on only one source; a dependable, unalterable, and definite authority, the Word of God. Only God can truly create, only He can be called the Creator. And, that's something we can all believe in.

Scripture: Colossians 1:16; Revelation 4:11; Job 12:7-9; 2 Peter 3:5; Hebrews 1:10

Prayer: Dear Lord, it is not for us to understand everything. Our duty is to simply obey and trust in Your guidance and protection. Amen

Have a blessed Monday!

Hailey