Creation
How would you react if your computer suddenly, in a fit of defiance, refused
to allow you access to your files? Computers were created for certain
uses. They can't rebel. Yet, as God's creation, human beings do rebel.
We constantly try to do things our own way. The Lord knows best how to
manage what he has made - and that includes our lives. Our salvation ensures
that we are now new creations with God - given abilities and desires to
see that God's work is done. God has also given us creative abilities
so that we can use a variety of means to accomplish his work. Those
are abilities a disgruntled computer doesn't have!
Take a good look at what God has created: a variety of
colors surrounding you, unique landscapes, delicious foods. The Lord deserves
our thanks for making all this, and he appreciates it when his creation
is grateful for what he has done.
Creation refers to all that God has made, namely,
the heavens, the earth, the animals and humankind.
Genesis 1:1-27
God put his creation under humankind's care.
Genesis 1:28-30
God made all things through Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:10; 3:9
Colossians 1:16
Revelation 4:11
Sin negatively affects everything in God's creation. It is because
of sin that creation as a whole eagerly awaits Jesus Christ's return to
earth.
Romans 8:19-22
Since we have received God's salvation,, we now have new lives.
God considers us "new creations."
2 Corinthians 5:17
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