“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.” Genesis 1:1-3    

      The God of all creation is sovereign and Almighty: He brought all things into existence according to His own will and power. Here, on the first day of His work, by a simple command He calls light out of darkness. I had a reader of my column object to the accuracy of the Bible by pointing out that it would be impossible to have light before the sun was created.

 What he didn’t realize was that God didn’t need anything to make light, just a simple command brought it forth: that command was the Word of God. The children of God don’t try to understand the “hows and whys” of what God does, but simply choose to believe what has been written for us.

The Lord is all-powerful, but He is not complicated. In speaking of man’s trying to understand His ways, the Lord says this, “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts…and my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9

“It is by faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen.” Hebrews 11:3 And, according to Genesis chapter one, the Lord did it in six, twenty four hour days.

          And from that day forward, God has exercised His sovereign will and power, many times and in many ways, by putting His simple commands in the mouths of His servants. When the time came for the Lord to deliver the Hebrews from Egypt, He put His words in Moses and Aaron’s mouths; when they spoke the plagues came. When the prophets spoke the words God gave them, His words came to pass. The Lord said this,

“…My word that goes forth from My mouth, shall not return to Me void, but accomplish what I please, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.” Isaiah 55:11 

         When Christ came into the world, He was identified as God’s Word come in the flesh. The apostle John’s gospel makes clear Who Jesus is, and His part in creation. Here’s what is written:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him, nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men…The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:1-14 

         Christ came into this world in direct obedience to the will of His Father. As a man, Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit. Everything Jesus said and did was the Father working through Him. He is called the Word of God because He only spoke what God wanted Him to speak. 

         You have an immortal soul; there are only two destinations for that soul: A place in the Father’s house, prepared for you by Jesus Himself; or, being forever separated from God in a lake of fire. Do you care? If you do care, wouldn’t you want to know for certain where you will spend eternity? Well, you can know for sure.

The words of Jesus Christ are the absolute truth from God to man and He said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6

Brother Bill is a Bible teacher and can be contacted at bboldham@sbcglobal.net