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Does God know everything? If you believe He does, then why don’t you listen to Him?
If you don’t believe He does, what does He not know? The sarcastic voice rises in your mind saying, “I can’t know what He doesn’t know until I ask Him.”
So you believe He exists, but He’s more like a college professor who is an expert on biology but knows nothing about English literature.
Therefore, as soon as you meet up with Him, you will expose His deficiencies regarding Shakespeare. After all, if you don’t know Shakespeare, you truly don’t know much.
Scientists agree on the exceedingly awful repercussions from the following possibilities:
1) the earth slows down; 2) the earth moves one mile closer to the sun; 3) the earth tilts on its axis more; 4) the moon leaves its orbit; 5) the earth moves one mile away from the sun.
If you are a true-blue evolutionist, you’d agree any one of those events could happen at any time. Evolution, by definition, is a theory of chance.
Roll snake eyes and the earth moves one mile away from the sun. Roll a lucky seven, and everything in the universe stays in place.
Believing evolution should drive everyone to constantly drink something stronger than a gallon of whiskey. Ethanol laced with castor oil, perhaps.
However, if you believe in God who created the entire universe, you may be familiar with Genesis 1. During the six days of His creation, He declares His work ‘good’ six times. It’s the Hebrew word ‘towb,’ which can mean beneficial, well, pleasing, pleasant, favorable, or lovely to mention a few applications.
Even if after creating the universe, He stepped aside to take a well-earned vacation spanning thousands of years, the universe would still remain good.
He has declared it so, and He is omnipotent as well as omniscient.
We need not contemplate the future of the earth from a fearful stance. The earth belongs to Him, and He will do as He wills according to His timetable.
Instead, we should keep our hearts focused on a future promise from Revelation 21:1: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away…”
May we find peace in the truth that God declared His creation to be good, and it will continue to be good until God makes the upgrade to an even better earth and heavens.
No army of alarmists with their predictive charts and diagrams can change that truth.
That’s the humongous picture. But it’s applicable to the smaller pictures as well.
David writes about his own ‘coming to life’ in Psalm 139:16. “Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there was not one of them.”
Ephesians 2:10 echoes David’s declaration: “For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.”
Even before He created the universe, He knew how and when He would launch it all. He knows when He will destroy the old earth and heavens, and when He will create the new earth and heavens.
We simply rest in the completeness of His omniscience and the power of His omnipotence.
Even more, just as He took nothingness (tohuw) and created goodness (towb) in every nook and cranny of the universe, He did the same for you and me. David describes us as ‘unformed substance.’ (Psalm 139:16) Yet, according to the verse, He saw us even then.
The intricacies of our physical bodies match the intricacies of the universe.
Maybe even more since we are made in His image. Either way, it’s phenomenal, and it’s entirely because of His omniscience and omnipotence.
How should we respond? Let’s think of our lives as ordinations rather than simply existence. You are His workmanship, and He’s placed a treasure chest of good works in front of you. So let that be your focus.
Become energized while opening the treasure chest holding your ordained works. Enjoy doing them while the nonbelievers worry about the moon exiting stage left. They truly have nothing better to do.