God The Creator

by Brown, J. | Category: General | Apr 1954

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1.1). This beginning has no historical background; it is timeless and dateless. Human history commenced with the creation of man and his place upon the earth, after God had restored it from the ruin and chaos seen in Genesis 1.2. He made it fit for man to live in and dwell thereon, but man is not seen in the beginning here spoken of.

He was not there when God created the heavens and the earth; he did not see the Creator stretching forth the heavens and spreading abroad the earth (Isaiah 44.24). God alone was the Creator of all this, and men's theories of when and how this world was created cannot be accepted for man was not there as an eye-witness. When great men, whom the word of God tells us are not always wise, say that the universe came into being apart from a Creator, it reveals how very unwise they can be at times. The universe without the Creator is unthinkable and absurd, for "nature," as Cowper has so truly said, "is only an effect, whose cause is God."

Some time ago we went to one of those beauty spots so plentiful in both islands of New Zealand. The weather was fine, the sun was shining, and the place we had chosen was all that could be desired for a day's relaxation. The scene stretching for miles ahead and around us was magnificent. We gazed with delight at God's visible creation. Some of the trees with their different colourings had been planted by man, but it took the God of nature to make them grow. One young woman who was with the party was so impressed, so intrigued with the wonderful view, that she cried out in rapture," Oh the beauty and vastness of it all!" God was speaking to her and to each one of us by His visible creation. We felt that it was easy to believe in God the Creator of things, both visible and invisible.

As I was standing in the garden one day, a beautifully coloured butterfly alighted upon a clump of flowers close to where I stood. As it spread out its lovely crimson wings, and sucked the nectar from the flowers, it seemed to be inviting me to look at the Creator's wonderful work. Oh how could that life, which was pulsating through its tiny body and those lovely crimson wings, have come to be there by some blind chance, how there apart from God, the Creator?

Men trace and identify men and women by their finger-prints, or their handwriting. The God of creation has given His divine signature to all that belongs to Him. He has written His glorious Name as Creator across the heavens, He has written His Name over the earth; they belong to Him.

The heaven is His throne, and the earth His footstool. How foolish for man not to believe because he cannot see or understand! Surely it is only the fool who says in his heart, there is no God. "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth His handiwork." Day and night, though they have no sound or voice, are never silent in their testimony which goes into every corner of the earth, making God, the Creator, known.

There is so much in life that we are compelled to believe, though unable to comprehend. Think of that wonder, when the little chick breaks through the shell and comes forth to fill its tiny place in this big world! Who could see in the egg the chick that is yet to be? but the period of incubation having passed, you see formed the downy feathers, the little hard bill, the eyes, the feet, the skin and flesh of the little chick. He who refuses to believe because he cannot see or comprehend a thing, is surely like the man who is wiser in his own conceit than seven men who can give a reason!

The stamp of God is on all around us. We find it in the tiny blade of grass, for He maketh the grass to grow. We see it in the trees which send their roots down into the earth and in the fountains of water which spring up from underneath the earth's surface for the good of mankind. Truly He is not "served by men's hands, as though He needed anything, seeing He Himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things "(see Acts 17.24, 25). The great eternal truth that God is the Creator was the central truth of God's first message to man. "The invisible things of Him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even His everlasting power and divinity" (Romans 1.20). Men would try to rob God of His creatorship, but the new heavens and the new earth which He will create will be an eternal witness to the truth that He alone is the Eternal Creator. Men have found out many inventions, but to invent a world without a Creator is beyond their power. The last days are here and the times are perilous, they are fierce and difficult (2 Timothy 3.1). The meaning of the word (Gr. Chalepos rendered grievous in R.V.) is clearly seen from its use to describe the character of the two demon-possessed men spoken of in Matthew 8.28, for they were fierce and could not be kept under restraint. The word occurs only here and in 2 Timothy 3.1. In these perilous times it is emphasized that the disciples must quit themselves like men, withal being careful that they are found walking as men, who reject all false teaching, such as the doctrine of evolution which would link man with the brute creation.

In the medical world there is a blood test by which the true parentage of the child can often be traced. In the word of God a flesh test is indicated (see 1 Corinthians 15. 39) which shows the radical difference between the animal creation and man. "All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another flesh of fishes." Moreover, we find that the beast when it dies, is not, whereas, at death, man who was, still is, for in God he lives, moves and has his being. Tell us of a time when the Eternal God shall cease to be, and we shall be able to tell of a time when man shall be no more. Ever are God's wondrous Gospel bells ringing out and calling upon the guilty sons of Adam's race to repent and believe in Him. That message comes in different forms, but amidst them all, the great eternal truth that God is the Creator is never lost sight of. In God's closing message to those who have never heard the Gospel as now proclaimed, a mighty angel will proclaim to the inhabitants of the earth, then alive, the eternal Gospel,-" Fear God, and give Him glory; for the great day of His judgement is come: and worship Him that made the heaven and the earth, and sea and fountains of water." Maranatha!

Wonderful things in the Bible I see, This is the dearest, that Jesus loves me."

Brown, J. | Apr 1954
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