Maker of Heaven and Earth

God made the world and all that is in it

Genesis 1:1 NASB95

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

The Christian witness begins by declaring God as the Almighty Father - the Maker of Heaven and Earth. But though this is how God’s Word begins, and how His Son and spoken of, and is integral to everything else that we perceive and know - we give very little time or thought to God as Creator.

But we ought to spend much more time declaring this truth - it is far more striking and beautiful and full of importance than we might first imagine. In fact, you are hard pressed to find a page of Scripture that this great truth is not somewhere found. Over and over and again the Creator God is explicitly and implicitly found in God’s declaration of Himself to us.

Here are just a few places, but they are far more inumerable than I can here spend:

Faith

Hebrews 11:1–3 NASB95

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old gained approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

The writer of Hebrews makes the clear connection that it is the SAME faith that believes God made the world that also saves you. It is not a different TYPE of faith.

It is not as though you can believe God might save you and NOT believe He made the world - it is because He made the world that He is able to save you. If He is not the ruler, the supreme, the all-powerful, maker of the cosmos then how is He going to make a way for salvation?

We have multitudes of false religions that have some sort of “saving” action taken by either a man or by yourself or some god-like being. But in all those actions the problem is not that the action might not save - it is that the action cannot save perfectly, absolutely, without fail, every time.

Many of the eastern religions of the world, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, have a god that contains everything by a type of emanation. Even Islam is more akin to this sort of creation than to the acts of the True God.

And in these emanations, you can immediately see the problem. If we are all a part, or if all creation is just a part, of whatever god there might be, then how in the world could there be a permanent solution?

There is nothing, no one, no thing, outside everything that can SUSTAIN the thing. Which means, it cannot redeem in any meaningful way - because it is subject to the “other” parts of itself.

God, however, is outside His creation. He is the author and has complete control of the contents and the actions. His hand cannot be thwarted anymore than Stephen King could write a book with the wrong hero. If he wants a certain guy with a certain name to suceed - then that guy in that story will absolutely succeed.

God, the maker of heaven and earth, has an even greater control and power to succeed because, unlike a book author, He controls the printing press and publicity and everything else. What He desires will happen.

This is why it is the same faith that believes He made the world that also believes He can save the world. They are the same sort of belief. They are believing that God has the ability to do as He pleases and He has told us that He made the world, that He desires to save it, and that Christ was made the perfect way.

Unlike some sort of deity dependent upon man or the cosmos to spin the right sort of way - God is dependent upon no man other than Himself.

The power of prayer

God, too, makes prayer a worthwhile effort because He is the maker of heaven and earth.