The Completion of Creation
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 4:14PM Can you imagine what it would have been like to see the creation of the world? To hear God speak and it was so. To see something created from nothing. Can you imagine?
I am often asked, “You don’t really believe God created the earth in just a few days? Do you?” My answer: “Absolutely!”
“But what about all the evidence; the 'FACT' that the earth has been in existence for millions, even billions of years,” they will question.
I begin with a question in turn: “In the Bible when God created Adam, was he a man or a baby? A man, right? So, if God is God (and He is) and He can create a man as if he had been alive for thirty years is it not a simple thing for Him to create the world as if it had been in existence for millions, even billions of years. In the moment God spoke, creation would have to exist at every stage of life for the earth to be sustained. A plant requires the nutrients from decaying plants and animals to sustain life. Therefore, when God created the pine tree, He created the pine tree at all stages of life -- saplings, young trees, aged trees, fallen trees, and decaying trees -- all in a single instant so the circle of life would continue.”
Imagine what it would have been like to be there in that moment. In seven short days, creation was complete. The real question is: are you living in the completion of creation?
Most people believe the completion of creation came on day six when God created man. It was on this fateful day that man became the caretaker of the earth. A job which became a curse after the fall. As I heard a pastor once say, “On the sixth day, God created man -- the crown jewel of creation.”
Yet, God’s creation was not complete on day six. God had one creation left which was greater than man. It was on the seventh day that God created the crown jewel, the completion of creation -- REST! And it was in the completion of creation that man was to live.
The Bible is full of man’s failure to live in the completion of creation. From Genesis on, we see God offering rest and man continuing in toil. God calls it rebellion, unbelief, disobedience, and pride. It is man desiring to be the crown jewel of creation and saying, “I can do it.” To these men, God says, “They shall not enter My rest.” (Hebrews 3:11) We see this in the Exodus: “So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.” (Hebrews 3:19)
Rest is the crown jewel of creation sustained by what Christ has brought into being. “For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.” (Hebrews 4:10) True rest is only found in Christ. It is sustained by Him. And entering in means letting go of yourself and allowing Him to live through you.
“Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden you hearts as in the rebellion.”
(Hebrews 3:7-8)
Are you stuck on day six or are you living in the completion of creation?
Reader Comments (2)
GOOD STUFF, Warren! Mighty good!!!
(btw, small editting detail....the above text repeats itself in the same post.)
Thanks Daja, I corrected the editing. Thanks for letting me know.