In the Beginning God......

In the Beginning God
“Genesis 1:1”
When my girls were young they knew that Jesus’ birthday was celebrated on Christmas, but they asked me one day; “Daddy, when is God’s birthday?” A fair question to ask seeing the celebration we have for the birth of our Savior. When I told them that God always was and had no beginning and no end, they could not grasp the reality of that, thinking that everyone had to have a day when they came into existence.
The best explanation that I could give is that God created time and is not subject to it. Of course they never would have understood that and now I wonder if I really do? In the beginning God set time into existence and began the circumstances that led to our lives today. The life that we lead is not the life that God intended for His creation, but it is the life that He foresaw. This raises a question, if God being all knowing knew that man would fall, why create mankind? I mean that if we were certain that a business would fail, would we begin the business? Fortunately, God is in the business of love, for I feel that God had so much love in Him that He wanted to share that love with beings that would serve Him because they wanted to, not because they had to. The scriptures teach that God is love, that it is His nature, and we are created in His image, therefore we have the ability to love as God loves, only He gave us also a free will and that is what ultimately led to our fall.
Deuteronomy 6:13 says; “You shall fear the Lord your God and serve Him,” Strong’s defines serve as: To work for, serve, do labor for someone; to be a servant, to worship. God is not an overlord who rules over his people and cares nothing about their prosperity, but God cares about His servants and rejoices when they prosper. Psalm 35:27 says; “let the Lord be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.” We are taught that we are created to serve God, and we are, but I feel that there is more to our creation than just to serve God. Don’t get me wrong, service to God is our highest calling, but I’m trying to get to the reason for creation itself. God rejoices when we prosper in the service for Him and we find peace with the Creator in that prosperity. We are also to find peace in the Creator when we can not see prosperity, and this takes love. As couples we have so much love to share that we desire to share that love with others that are created out of that love, thus children. We always look at other children and say that our children will never act like that, only to realize that they are worse. Does that make us sad that we had these children, these beings that are created out of love?
Genesis 6:6 “And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He grieved in His heart.” Though God was about to destroy man in the flood, His love for man kept Noah and his family alive, and gave man a second chance. God is a God of second chances and for this reason did Christ die on the cross. When our children fail to meet our expectations for their lives, we become disappointed, but love them just the same for we can not change the fact that they are still our children and our hearts grieve for them as well.
Do I now understand why creation? I think I get a better grasp on it, in that we were created out of love, to serve God, and to prosper in that love. Deuteronomy 6:5 says: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” It impossible to love someone unless you know them, I do not believe in love at first sight, but that love is nurtured over time as we grow to know someone. We can not know God unless we come to know His Son. God desired that we know Him and sent His Son to earth for us to know Him. My accepting Christ as your savior you come into a relationship with God that you my know the nature of God and come to love Him.
God is Omnipresent in that He can be in all places at all times. His love fills the universe and beyond our knowledge of the universe. He is always near us and available when we call upon Him. When we humble ourselves before God, and come to Him in prayer He will hear our prayers.
God is Omnipotent, having virtually unlimited authority and influence on all that He has created. God is not a cowering old man who sits in wonder of what His people will do next, but is in control of everything and will finish what He set out to accomplish with creation.
God is omniscient, in that He knows all things, past, present, and future. He knows our every thought.
In the beginning God who existed in all places, with unlimited authority, and knowing all thing set all things into existence. He is the designer and creator of all things and rules over His creation. He set our very lives into motion and called us to be His. Astrophysicists have found that life could not exist if one of the following were not true;

Earth’s rotation was slower, or faster

We were 2% closer or further from the sun

Little Debbie quit making snack cakes

Earth had a 1% change in sunlight

Earth was smaller or larger

The moon was smaller or larger

We had more than one moon

Earth’s crust was thinner or thicker

Oxygen/Nitrogen ratio was greater or less

Ozone layer was greater or less

To believe that life spontaneously emerged from nothing requires great faith. There is no evidence suggesting this, only theory, which is the same accusation that is leveled against creationist. I have faith in God and that He created all things into existence, and the creation speaks of His glory. Dr. George Wald, Nobel Prize winner from Harvard University, states it as honestly as any evolutionist can: “One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.” This statement demonstrates a greater faith than a religious creationist can muster. Even though Dr. Wald said that it was impossible, yet he believes. What can we say to this kind of reasoning? I think the words of Psalm 148 say it very well indeed.
Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord from the heavens;
Praise Him in the heights!
Praise Him all His angels;
Praise Him all His hosts!
Praise Him sun and moon;
Praise Him, you heavens of heavens,
And you waters above the heavens!
Let them praise the name of the Lord,
For He commanded and they were created,
He also established them forever and ever;
He made a decree which shall not pass away.
Praise the Lord from the earth,
You great sea creatures and all the depths;
Fire and hail, snow and clouds;
Stormy wind, fulfilling His word;
Mountains and all hills;
Fruitful trees and all cedars;
Beasts and all cattle;
Creeping things and flying fowl;
Kings of the earth and all peoples;
Princes and all judges of the earth;
Both young men and maidens;
Old men and children.
Let them praise the name of the Lord,
For His name is to be exalted;
His glory is above the earth and heaven.
And He has exalted the horn of His people,
The praise of all His saints-
Of the children of Israel,
A people near to Him.

Praise the Lord!