The Message Creation Proclaims

When a magician stands before a crowded room of children and just before his next trick asks, “Kids, what’s the magic words?”   What’s the answer? Come on, I know you are thinking the word so go ahead and say it out loud.  Ready….Abracadabra!!!!

Abracadabra is an Aramaic word and means, “to create something from nothing. ‘I will create as I speak.’”  It is also a companion to a word we find in the first verse of the Bible.  Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning God BARA (created)…” Bara is defined as “Created from Nothing.”

In Physics we learn of the Law of Conservation of Energy.  It states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed.  The Universe could not have created itself without some outside infinite power source.  .  Science is based on observation and can only study that which already exists. Since energy cannot be created, a source of unimaginable power from outside of nature was required for life to begin…that power is GOD.

8 Times in Genesis chapter 1 it states, “God said…” and something was created.

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The most important issue of our day..."In the Beginning....GOD"

Genesis 1:1 is arguably the most read verse in all of the Bible.  Have you read it?  You can most likely quote it from memory as
easy as stating your own name, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

Today, there seems to be a war on God.  It has been stated from various sources that the new religion in America is to not believe in God.  And if you are going to believe in God, just don’t believe in the God of the Bible.  It’s interesting to note that every culture in recorded history has had some conception of a god, some source beyond ourselves that directly affected the beginning of life as we know it.

Why is that?  It seems that in our very make-up as humans we are created to look for answers outside of ourselves.  The French Philosopher Pascal said in the heart of every man there is a "God-shaped vacuum.”  Augustine said, “Lord, you have made us for yourself.  Our hearts are restless until they find rest in you.”

The Song Creation Sings

"The heavens declare the glory of God;

And the firmament shows His handiwork." - Psalm 19:1

More than 3000 years ago, a man named David looked at the stars and as his emotions were caught up in the beauty and majesty of what he saw he proclaimed that the heavens themselves declare the glory of God.

Day after day we are surrounded by creation's song.  Listen carefully and you will hear the glory of God being declared by the chirping of the birds, by the whistling of the wind, by the splash of the fish.  The beautiful melody of our creator can be heard in every warm ray of sunshine, every blossoming flower, every leaf that changes color in the Fall and every snowflake that cascades to the ground.  

Creation declares that our God is Glorious!

Creation also declares that our God is Beautiful.

Have you ever looked at a picture of earth that was taken from outer space?

 Absolutely breathtaking.

Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Why does God specifically mention the earth in the very first verse of the Bible?

Psalm 115: 16 declares, “The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s; But the earth He has given to the children of men."

Floating in space, the earth itself sings about God our creator.  There is no other planet in our solar system like our planet.  Earth is covered with green vegetation, enourmous blue-green oceans containing over a million islands, hundreds of thousands of streams, rivers, and huge land masses, mountains, ice caps and deserts.  Some form of life is found in every ecological niche on the earth’s surface.

The earth is 93 million miles from the sun, if it traveled faster on its 584-million mile orbit, the orbit would become larger and life would not be able to sustain.  If the earth moved closer to the sun, life would not be able to be sustained.

70% of the earth is covered in water.  The vast amounts of water on the earth help sustain life.  Water can absorb enormous amounts of heat without alteration.  Its absorption level is about 10 times as great as steel.  During the day, the earth’s bodies of water rapidly soak up enormous amounts of heat, helping to cool the earths temperature.  At night, the waters release the heat and when mixed with the atmosphere, helps keep most of the earth’s surface from freezing solid at night.  If it weren’t for the large masses of water on the planet, the earth’s temperature would rise and fall to levels that life could not exists.

The earth is orbited by one moon that is 1/4^th its size.  The moon helps establish our atmosphere, gravity and the axis the earth rotates on, all the while, protecting us from a barrage of meteorites. 

Understand this, Creation is proclaiming that our incredible God is a God of Beauty and of Order.

Think about the planets that rotate the sun near us.  Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.  Temperatures rise to more than 800’ on the side facing the sun, and the side facing away will drop t -298’ below zero.

Venus is hotter than Mercury, yet farther away from the sun.  Its atmosphere is 90 times thicker than earth’s and heat is trapped in the clouds.  Venus can be as hot as 931’F.

Mars is most similar to earth, but its warmest day is a mere 67’F but with two small moons it has very little gravity and cannot sustain a large enough atmosphere.

One of the great scientific minds in history was mathematician and physicists, Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727).  He is known for deriving the Law of Gravity and inventing a branch of mathematics called Calculus.  I still haven't figured that one out yet :).

Newton had a large model of our Solar System built for him.  A story is told that one day another scientist came by to visit Newton and saw the model.  The friend did not believe in Biblical creation and said, “Oh MY! What an exquisite thing this is!  Who made it for you?”  Newton answered, “Nobody.”  The other man said, “Oh? Evidently you did not understand my question.  I asked, who made this?”  Newton replied again, “Nobody.”  “You must think I’m a fool!” the visitor replied. “Of course somebody made it, and he is a genius and I would like to know who he is.”

Newton firmly said, “This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer and maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?”

Friend, creation itself is a masterpiece declaring the majesty of the composer - God.  Creation sings that God is glorious, that He is beautiful, that He is orderly and that He is faithful.