SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/18/2018
10:07 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “Creator God”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts 17:24a
Message of the
verses: “"The God who made the
world and all things in it,”
I tried to explain the direction we are going in as we
look at Acts 17:24-29 in our last SD, that is that there are sub-points under
the main point of “Recognizing who God Is,” and we began the first sub-point in
our last SD, “Creator God,” and will continue looking at this in today’s SD.
We have been talking about evolution in our last SD, and
for those who have read some of my Spiritual Diaries know, I hate evolution
because it is something that is possible to make happen. I also hate it because Satan is behind it to
cause people not to be accountable to God.
We were also talking about the fossil record in our last SD, and the
fossil record is the only way to determine if evolution has happened. Why? Because it contains the history of life
on earth. John MacArthur writes: “Although presented in popular literature and
textbooks as proof for evolution, the fossil record is actually a major source
of embarrassment for evolutionists. The
innumerable transition forms between phylogenetic groups demands by evolution
are simply not found. Although an
evolutionist, David B. Kitts of the University of Oklahoma admits,
‘Despite the bright promise
that paleontology provides a means of ‘seeing’ evolution, it has presented some
nasty difficulties for evolutionists record.
Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and Theory.’
“Even
Stephen Jay Could of Harvard University, perhaps the most well known
contemporary defender of evolution, candidly admits,
‘The extreme rarity of
transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of
paleontology. The evolutionary trees
that adorn out textbooks have data only at the tips and notes of their
branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of
fossils.’”
Now as we look at what Paul said in our verse for today
we see that he simply stated that “God made the world and all things in it.” Like Genesis 1:1 which says “In the beginning
God created the heavens and the earth,” Paul realizes that God has always
existed, and always will exist; there is no argument about this. We can look at some verses in the Word of God
to support what Paul is saying in verse 24.
Now we have already looked at Genesis 1:1 and so we will move on to
Psalm 146:5-6 “5 How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope
is in the LORD his God, 6 Who made
heaven and earth, The sea and all that is in them;” In Isaiah 40:28 he asks a rhetorical question: “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The
Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become
weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable.” Next we look at Isaiah 45:18 “For thus says
the LORD, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made
it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be
inhabited), "I am the LORD, and there is none else.” Next Jeremiah 10:12 “It is He who made the
earth by His power, Who established the world by His wisdom; And by His
understanding He has stretched out the heavens.” Jeremiah 32:17 “’Ah Lord GOD! Behold, You
have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your
outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You.” (There is a wonderful little hymn that goes
along with this verse.) Next, Zechariah
12:1 “The burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the
LORD who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms
the spirit of man within him.”
Next we move to some verses in the New Testament. Ephesians 3:9 “and to bring to light what is
the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who
created all things.” Colossians 1:16 “For
by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and
invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-all things
have been created through Him and for Him.”
Revelation 4:11 “"Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive
glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will
they existed, and were created."”
Revelation 10:6 “and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, WHO
CREATED HEAVEN AND THE THINGS IN IT, AND THE EARTH AND THE THINGS IN IT, AND
THE SEA AND THE THINGS IN IT.”
I will close by talking about another thing that is
disturbing to me, and that is that what is called the “gap theory.” Some say that there is a gap of perhaps
millions, or billions of years between Genesis 1:1, and Genesis 1:2. During that gap period God had set the world
in motion and then left and so those who believe this theory believe in
evolution, and they are suppose to be believers. I have run into some people who taught this,
and one of them is now in heaven and so I have to believe that he has now
changed his mind. It is very simple to
me when it comes to God creating the world and the universe, and that it
happened just as we read in the Scriptures beginning with Genesis 1:1 and then
looking at other verses from both the Old and New Testaments. As to why did God do this I can say that God
did not need to create man, the earth, and the rest of the universe, for if that
were true that would mean that God was in need of something, and for me I would
not worship a God who needed anything.
God created what He created for His glory as Psalm 19 tells us: “The heavens are telling of the glory of God;
And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.” I believe that we can expand on this by
looking at the second Psalm: “7 "I
will surely tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to Me, ’You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You. 8 ’Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as
Your inheritance, And the very ends of the earth as Your possession. 9 ’You
shall break them with a rod of iron, You shall shatter them like
earthenware.’"” I believe that the
Word of God teaches that God created all that He for His Son, the Lord Jesus
Christ. God needed nothing, or needs
nothing, but in eternity past the triune God made a plan, and that plan would
bring glory to God through the creation of all that He created, and that plan
was that the Father was doing what He did for the Son as we see in Psalm
2:8. Those who God chose in eternity
past, those who the Son came and died for, and those that the Holy Spirit gave
an effectual call to are part of God’s plan to give to the Son, and as for me I
am in awe of that and so very thankful that Christ came to earth to save me,
and then to use me to bring glory to the Lord, and even the things that I do
which bring glory to the Lord were planned in eternity past (Eph. 2:10), and
are accomplished through the indwelling Holy Spirit who gives me the power to
accomplish what He has planned for me to do so that that too will bring glory
to the Lord.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: I trust the Lord
that the things that I do will bring glory to His Son, my Savior and Lord,
Jesus Christ.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trusting the Lord to bring spiritual insight
as I read and study His Word today.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Because they had witnessed
the things He did at Jerusalem at the feast” (John 4:45).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who said, ‘The philistines be
upon thee’?”
Answer in our next SD.
5/18/2018 11:01 AM
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