God's Creation

 

 

 

Yes, all things grow with love. Because God loved, He created the earth and mankind for his pleasure.  Most of those who believe in God's creation associate it with the account found in Genesis. There are, however, many more scriptures that establish the message of creation. In fact, creation is mentioned in the Bible from Genesis through Revelation.

 Awesome is the only word to describe it. Just think about it--God created man from dust and the heavens and the earth from nothing!  Regardless of opinion, creation did not just evolve, and God's Word proves this beyond any doubt. Only our Sovereign God (no other being) could have created our spectular world.

I would like to share with you some Scriptures about creation. Even if you have read these verses before, I would encourage you to read them again with a renewed spirit, and reflect on the Sovereignty of God.  When I read these verses, I just take a deep breath and become exhilarated in the knowledge of God's majesty and power. I do hope you will feel the same.

I have added my own notes to each verse, which I hope you will find helpful. 

 

 

All Scripture from NIV

 

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 

~Genesis 1:1~

In the beginning meaning time as we know it, God created what: the heavens and the earth, the world as we know it.

So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.

~Genesis 1:21~

What did God create? Everything in the sea and every kind of bird.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 

~Genesis 1:27~

God created man and woman in his own image,

The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. 

~Genesis 2:7~

What are we made of? The very dust of the ground. So, monetarily speaking, we are really not worth very much. And He actually breathed into the nostrils so that man became a human being.

Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. 

~Genesis 2:19~

And so we would have companions as well as food, God made every animal that exists, and all the birds. So from the very beginning, God was providing for us.

...When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 

~Genesis 5:1~

The most awesome part: we are made in the likeness of God. This is perfection. God makes no mistakes.

Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created man on the earth... 

~Deuteronomy 4:32~

Here, Moses, speaking to the children of Israel, is referring to the beginning of time when God created man. Moses says, "Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of?"

The earth is the LORD'S, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters. 

~Psalm 24:1-2~

In this Psalm, David acknowledges that the earth and everything it it belongs to God. Another excellent Psalm all about creation is Psalm 104 (one of my favorites). Well worth your time to read it.

The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. 

~Psalm 95:5~

The Psalmist gives certitude to God for the oceans and the dry land formed by the hands of God.

May you be blessed by the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth. 

~Psalm 115:15~

This entire Psalm encourages us to fear and place our trust in the LORD so that we may receive His blessings.

I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
   where does my help come from?
 My help comes from the LORD,
   the Maker of heaven and earth.

~Psalm 121:1-2~

 

The Psalmist wants us to know the comforting assurance we have by seeking help from our God, the Maker of heaven and earth.

He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. 

~Psalm 147:4~

How amazing that God made and knows the exact number of stars (maybe zillions), and calls them each by name.

By wisdom, the LORD laid the earth's foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; by his knowledge the deeps were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew. 

~Proverbs 3:19~

God didn't just on a whim create the earth. Divine wisdom guided the Creator. For us to live by wisdom is to imitate the Lord and conform to the divinely appointed creation order.

 

As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother's womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. 

~Ecclesiastes 11:5~

Ecclesiastes, written by Solomon, and similar to Proverbs, renders a number of truisms. In Chapter eleven, Solomon speaks of casting your bread upon the waters. And verse five above acknowledges God as the Maker of all things.

Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:  Who created all these?  He who brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name.  Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. 

~Isaiah 40:26~

Isaiah has much to say about creation. Here, in verse 26 of chapter 40, Isaiah is referring to the same account which Solomon spoke in Proverbs...By God's great power and mighty strength, not one star is missing.

This is what God the LORD says--he who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and all that comes out of it... 

~Isaiah 42:5~

In this 42nd chapter of Isaiah, God is speaking to Israel, announcing that His Son, the Messiah, would atone for the sins of the world. Isaiah then acknowledges this is the same God that created the heavens and the earth.

...I am the LORD, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself. 

~Isaiah 44:24~

 God is speaking to Israel through Isaiah,  proclaiming that He, alone, created the heavens and the earth.

It is I who made the earth and created mankind upon it. My own hands stretched out the heavens; I marshaled their starry hosts. 

~Isaiah 45:12~

Again, God reveals to Israel that He is the one who created the earth, mankind, and stretched out the heavens and created all 

For this is what the LORD says--he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth...

~Isaiah 45:18~

Isaiah acknowledges what the LORD says, that he created the heavens and made the earth.

That you forget the LORD your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth...

~Isaiah 51:13~

Going back to the beginning of verse 12, God, speaking to Israel, reminds them that it is He who comforts them. So why should they fear men, who are but grass, that they should forget their Maker who created the heavens and the earth.

...For them the spirit of man would grow faint before me--the breath of man that I have created.

  ~Isaiah 57:16~

God giving us another reminder that He created each of us.

He made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. 

~Jeremiah 51:15~

God reveals to Jeremiah that He is the divine and Sovereign God in His power to engender the heavens and the earth.

"This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and
established it--the LORD is his name...

~Jeremiah 33:2~

Creation by God repeated again to Jeremiah. Must be important.

But at the beginning of creation God made then male and female. 

~Mark 10:6~

Taking a look back in chapter 10 of Mark: Now, in the New Testament, after the birth of Jesus, who speaking to the Pharisees, reminds them of what Moses wrote in the law regarding divorce, and that God made them male and female.

 Because those will be the days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world...

~Mark 13:19~

In this verse, Jesus speaks of the end times, saying that distress in those days will be far worse than anything since the very beginning of time, when God created the world.

When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. "Sovereign LORD," they said, "you made  the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. 

~Acts 4:24~

A little background: Upon the release of Peter and John from the Sanhedrin, they went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. Then the people acknowledged God as Sovereign and the one and only Creator.

...And to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. 

~Ephesians 3:9~

Paul, preaching to the Gentiles at Ephesus, speaks of his own salvation to help them understand the mystery of Christ, which in the past was only known by God, who created all things.

For by him all things were created:  things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible... 

~Colossians 1:16~

In Paul's letter to the Colossians, he reminds the Colossians that Christ is the image of the invisible God, then adding that by God all things were created. So Paul is getting the creation message out to them.

"You are worthy, our LORD and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being." 

~Revelation 4:11~

When John was given a glimpse of heaven, he saw the twenty-four elders falling down before God and worshiping him for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say that the Lord and God will receive glory and honor and power, for He created all things.

And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it...

~Revelation 10:6~

In the beginning of Chapter ten, John saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven and with his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion, and swore by Him who lives for ever and ever and did create the heavens, earth and the sea and all that it is it.

 

And so from the beginning, in Genesis, to the end of God's Word, Revelation, creation is eulogized. I sincerely hope you enjoyed reading about our God's creation. It is most amazing!

 

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