God Can Handle It

"The heavens are telling of the glory of God." Psalm 91:1

Do you ever do anything just because it makes you feel good? You don't have to do it. There's no need to do it, but you just enjoy doing it.

Well, that's how God feels about all of creation! He created the universe out of Hi own good pleasure. He didn't have to do it, because one of the attributes of our God is that He is self-sufficient. He doesn't need anything or anyone to complete Him.

Psalm 19 invites us to see, by looking at what God has created, how glorious and sufficient He is. If you really want to know how sufficient, how good, how complete something is, look at what it produces. If what it produces is glorious, then the person responsible for that production must be more glorious then the thing produced and must be sufficient to produce ti. Today's verse says we can look at nature and see God's fingerprints all over it.

That's why God does not spend time trying to prove His existence to atheists. Only a fool would reject the existence of God after looking at the creation as complex and orderly as this world. All of the things that make life what it is prove that we have an all-sufficient God and that there is none like Him.

The Bible declares that God is responsible for creation, which of necessity means that God precedes creation. The reason God precedes creation is that He 'has life within Himself" (John 5:26). God has self-generating power, His own internal battery, by which He crated everything.

And having created all things, God is more than sufficient to handle His creation. Referring to Jesus, Colossians 1:17 says that "in Him all things hold together." Jesus is the "cosmic glue" that keeps this universe from flying apart.

God's self-sufficiency is good news for us. Why? Because Ephesians 1:5-6 says that He saved us and adopted us as His children because it pleased Him to do so, not because we were worthy that's what grace is all about, and that's why we can call god our Father.

Think about it: The self-sufficient power that God exercised in creation and in our salvation is the same power by which He will keep us secure until He comes for us.

By Tony Evans, taken from "Time to Get Serious"