Our Maker, Our Redeemer

May 13

“By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible,” Hebrews 11:3.

It requires faith to believe that God spoke and the world came into existence, but it also takes faith to believe that everything that exists came into being because somehow the correct amoeba was in the right place at the right time and all manner of life came into being through the right conflux of events.

The best refutation of the notion of random selection resulting in precise outcomes is the old adage about the 747. How many such sophisticated aircraft came into being because a tornado swept through a junk yard and a fully-functioning jumbo airliner was assembled? I don’t know of any, either.

Nor do I know of any chocolate chip cookies or loaves of bread or donuts that were mixed and baked without the activity of a baker. And I can’t think of a single item of clothing that hasn’t been designed or assembled without the input of a viable mind. If all these relatively simple activities require thought, why would we imagine that the earth came to be without an intelligent mind?

How many traffic engineers does it take to assemble a highway system? How many air traffic controllers does it take to keep air traffic moving safely? For anyone to accept the notion of a creator-less universe is to extrapolate that bread can be baked without human input or that airplanes navigate the skies safely without the help of human minds and human-made instruments.

The logic of there being a Divine Creator who brought the universe and all that exists into being by “the move of His Holy Spirit upon the face of the deep,” Genesis 1:2, and who can, if He so chooses, eliminate errant creation “by the breath of His nostrils,” Job 4:9, should give us pause before we too hastily dismiss Him or the One He has sent to redeem us from our sin.

If common sense dictates that a supernatural being with unfathomable power made all that exists for His glory (see Colossians 1:16) should we not also accept that His holiness demands a perfection of which we are not capable in and of ourselves? Does this not then bring us to the conclusion that “In Christ we live and move and have our being,” Acts 17:28 and that His is the “only name given under heaven by which men might be saved,” Acts 4:12.

WE NEED HIM! Let us not be so smug in our human sufficiency to convince ourselves that we were made apart from Him and can exist apart from Him. Let us receive the blessing of being made in His image and being fully alive forever by the power of His love. He is our Maker and our Redeemer and therein are we eternally blessed.