God Created

In Bill Keane’s FAMILY CIRCUS, little Billy is watching television. The speaker boldly says:

“Remember this, my friends, great things never happen until some person in this world makes them happen.”

Billy’s mind gets to thinking about the snow, the reflection of the moon on the lake at night, the waves crashing at the beach, a butterfly breaking out of its cocoon, a gorgeous sunset and a beautiful waterfall and then he says, “Oh, yeah?”

Billy had the youthful wisdom to give credit where credit is due—to God the Creator!

One of the basic tenets of the Christian, Jewish and Islamic beliefs is that God is the Creator and author of the universe(s) and everything in it/them.

This week I’m looking forward to exploring with you how God’s creative love burst across the endless void in his glorious work of creating! God was so filled with love—love to be shared and love to be given—that God couldn’t hold it in and didn’t want to hold it in!

So, instead, God created! And God’s love is so magnificent that God didn’t settle for only creating universally. The Bible story tells us that on the last working day of God’s Creation, He created us—you and I—the human beings! God said: “Let us make humankind, in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish and the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:26-27 says: “So God created humankind in God’s image, in the image of God he created them; male and female God created them.”

We are not a coincidence or an accident! We are created in love, on purpose and with a purpose. God created us for God, for creation, and for each other. God looked at humanity with all of its potential, its freedom to choose, to love, to think, to be creative, and to generously give of itself. God looked at humanity endowed with abilities far beyond those of the animals; God looked at us with all of our frailties and God said, “It is very good!”

I hope you can join us this week as we continue the teaching series: “God’s Love Is….”

Pastor Duff