What A Wonderful Name Series: Creator
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1
As I began to plan this series, I wondered where I should start. The names of God are many and they are beautiful. It would take me years to cover every single name in the Word. Suddenly, it came to me, start at the beginning. So here we are.
The first way God was ever reveled to us was with the beautiful title of "Creator." This title reveals so much to our faint hearts, it brings a light to our darkness from the start.
"One that creates usually by bringing something new or original into being;"
Before God, there was nothing. God is and always has been. Then, He created. All the things we have seen and not seen, all the things of the past and all of the things of the future. The smallest of creatures and the largest of mountains. All of it, God created. And it was good.
For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things have been created through Him and for Him. Colossians 1:16
When I hear the word "create" I think of great skill, power, imagination, gentleness, artistry. I think of a mind so intricate that I cannot fathom the unique things that come about from that mind. Some of the great creators of today are Steve Jobs, creator of the popular iPhone. Mark Zuckerburg who created the popular Social Media site, Facebook. Many more inventors have created machines and places that 100 years ago no one would have ever thought possible. Did Thomas Edison know that someday we would be able to send messages across the world in less than a second? I doubt it. These people blow our minds and make us wonder how they ever thought to do something so radical. Often, we become so entranced by their works we forget the One and Only Creator Who makes all that we do on Earth possible. These "creators" never thought to create a universe so large and beautiful that discovering its fullness would take hundreds of lifetimes. They never thought to create the rose or the rich minerals in our soil. They never created a creature in their image with a mind and soul and body that could do great things.
Only God, the all powerful-Creator, could ever do such wonders.
"The One forming light and creating darkness, Causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the LORD who does all these." Isaiah 45:7
God is the Lord who does all these. He made the light that we use to signal stops and goes. He is the one who created the goodness in our life. The lakes we swim in, the families we play games with, the food that we enjoy. God created the hard things like floods and fires and sickness and death, in order to bring us close to Him. God is our Creator + Maker. Without Him nothing we have exists.
"All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made."
John 1:3
Yet, we, humans, society, His creation, act independently of God. We act as though we are "self-made" and all of our success is due to our hard work. We trash our bodies as if they were not created to be valued and cared for. Wreck our hearts with relationships and sinful lives. We treat our lives as if they were our own. We never give credit where credit is due, and selfishly claim prizes and rewards for ourselves as if we deserve them. When those same prizes and rewards are given to another we throw childish fits because "We worked hard" and "We deserve more."
We idolize our cellphones and social media accounts, our jobs, our cars, our TV shows, our relationships. We place our money into material things that waste away instead of giving to the Church working relentlessly for the Kingdom.
We forget that God MADE us. We forget that God, the one who made the billions of stars, 29,000 foot mountains, 36,000 foot deep oceans, that same God, the same Creator, He made US too. He saw the mountains and said they were good. He saw us, and said that we were very good.
We forget that this Powerful Creator wanted us here, so much so that He sent His Son to die a brutal death so that we might be forgiven. Our Creator's Son was blugeoned so that we might enter the gates of Heaven to hear "Well done." We treat God like the last piece of the bread and the off-brand cereal. We don't want it, but we will take if it is the last resort.
Yet, without His skill, power, and grace, we would be nothing.
"For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited), "I am the LORD, and there is none else." Isaiah 45:18
God made the eyes you see with and the ears you hear with. What are YOU doing that recognizes that? Are we humbling ourselves and realizing that there is no one who is "self-made"? We are so little compared to the mganificent world God created around us. Yet, we are so loved. So much more than the birds of the air.
Today my friend I urge you to go and consider Creation as David did. Remember Who the Maker is, remember that you are fearfully and wonderfully made. You are loved + forgiven + blessed. Remember your place here. Remember that your might and power is nothing compared to His, remember that your heart is flooded with sin and you are in great need of this Creator whom you have set to the side. Remember that His love takes you to the highest mountains and throws your sin into the deepest parts of the ocean.
"When I look at your heavens , the work of y our fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor."
Psalm 8:3-5
"I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well." Psalms 139:14
Then turn to God, praise Him, for He is due all praise forevermore.
"Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him, all His hosts! Praise Him, sun and moon; Praise Him, all stars of light! Praise Him, highest heavens, And the waters that are above the heavens" Psalm 148:2-5
Friends,
Remember your Creator, remember who you were created to be, and praise Him.
