You know what’s so sad, we’ll stop at this point, but what is so sad is that man refuses to see God in creation. Isn’t that sad? Man refuses to see God in creation, and refuses to hear God in conscience, suppresses the truth, plunges into deeper darkness and hopelessness. I’ll tell you what grieves me most of all. What grieves me most of all is people who say they’re Christians who believe the Bible, and then claim evolution. I’ll say this again, I said it weeks ago…you cannot find evolution in Genesis 1 anywhere. It’s not there. There’s no way to exegete that chapter and come out with evolution…no way possible. You have to suppress the truth. Why do that? Why would you…why would you affront God or blaspheme God, or dishonor God in order to honor a godless evolutionist, in order to buy some scientific credibility? We take Scripture at its face value, don’t we? I don’t know about you, but I start believing the Bible in Genesis 1:1, I don’t have to wait till chapter 3.
Donald Barnhouse once wrote, “God gives man brains to smelt iron and make a hammer, hammerhead and nails. God grows a tree and gives man the strength to cut it down and the brains to fashion a hammer handle from the wood. And when man has the hammer and the nails, God will put out His hand and let man drive nails through it and place Him on a cross in the supreme demonstration that men are without excuse.” They reject the creator to the degree that when He was incarnate they killed Him.
It is a dishonor to God to believe anything other than what Genesis says, right? Does it honor God to believe He made all this? Does it honor God to believe the creation account of Genesis? Does it give Him glory? Is it a proper representation of who He is and what He’s done? And is it a source of worship? Anything less is an affront to God. To make matter self-creating, to make the complex diversity of this created universe the product of chance is to give chance more credit than God, and chance doesn’t even exist, it’s a non-existent reality.
We start worshiping God in Genesis 1, do we not, when we worship Him as creator.
Father, thank You again for tonight as we’ve worked our way through day five and how have the glorious anticipation of that final day of creation, the day You created all the animals and the crown of creation made in Your own image, man. We worship You, we adore You, we praise You, we thank You, we glorify You, we honor You as the God of creation…not only the God of creation but the God of salvation. Einstein was wrong, we can know You because You desire to know us. You’ve made Yourself known to us in Your creation. More than that, You’ve made Yourself known to us in conscience by the law written in our hearts. Beyond that, You’ve made Yourself known to us in revelation, through the Scripture and You’ve showed us that You’re not only a God of immensity, a God of immutability who doesn’t change, a God of omniscience and omnipresence and omnipotence, a God of unlimited power and knowledge, You’re a God of vast complexity and vast…vast beauty and order, You’re a God that fills an endless and infinite universe, and yet You are a God who cares about sinners, who loves sinners, who came into the world and was born in a humble, humble, humble place in an obscure town called Bethlehem, laid in a feed trough. You came all the way down to take the place of sinners, to die on a cross that You might know us and that we might know You. Oh how we rejoice that we know You, the true and living God, the creator of the universe and our friend and our Redeemer. We thank You. Amen.
© 1997 Grace to You
“This article originally appeared here at Bible Bulletin Board.”
