The Creator God

As Christians, one of our fundamental beliefs is that God is the Creator of everything. You and I included. To some is incredible, to some laughable, and to others scary. The other day in our girls’ bible study, a friend touched on John 1,

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him, nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” -John1:1-5

It’s insane to think that the Creator God would come down to His creation, but it’s even crazier that His creation would kill their own Creator.

I also recently read Psalm 33,

“For the word of the Lord is right and true; He is faithful in all He does…By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of His mouth…Let all the earth fear the Lord;let all the people of the world revere him. For he spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.” -Psalm 33:4,6,8-9

All of that is about Jesus; the Word, He is the way through which God creates and through which God speaks to us. He created and made Himself known through Jesus. Thinking about it leaves me kind of mind blown. I also love how cohesively the Bible ties these thoughts together even though these passages were written thousands of years apart by different people. Pretty cool.

As I contemplated the reality of this truth, It made me think more about people as His creation. The Psalm continues to say,

“From heaven, the Lord looks down and sees all mankind; from His dwelling place He watches all who live on earth— He who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do.” -Psalm 33:14-15

In the past, I have thought about the idea of us being His masterpiece. The Bible makes very clear that out of everything we are His most valued creation; that being because we are made in His image.

Even here, in these verses, it emphasizes intimacy in God “forming our hearts” and “considering all we do”. There is such nearness and tenderness to these statements.

Reading this has sparked something in me. If God loves me, His creation, so much, and if the same hands that formed my heart formed the one of my neighbors, it should ignite a sense of awe and wonder about people! If they are so loved and so treasured by God they must be worth getting to know and getting to serve! Wow, now not only do I want to see what God put in them, but I want them to know the same Creator I do, too! I want them to know how incredibly cool and unique they are and how loved and purpose-filled their lives are!

May our lives be totally overwhelmed by the beautiful reality that our Creator God is worth our worship and that our fellow creations are worth our love.