A New Creation

 

“For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.”-Psalms 33:9

 

The power of God to create all things with His speech is incredible and without comprehension.  So awesome and unimaginable is the power and vastness of creation, that it reflects praise to the Creator.  Creation, the power, this force that is reserved to God is for God alone.  He is simply the Creator, and we are the created.  It is a truth of the scripture that has been and will continue to be challenged.  Yet, the creation testifies to the Creator and God in heaven speaks.

 

When God spoke the world into existence, he spoke into it that which cannot be altered.  Times and season, life and death; our world operates on visible principles that we can all agree on.  Yet, how it came to be is something we don’t all agree on.  All living beings throughout human history have sought to comprehend the simple question: “where did we come from?”  World religions, and scientific pursuits offer theories to this incredible question, but Christianity offers truth, accepted by faith.  What I mean by faith is this.  If we could offer some empirical evidence to creation, like taking a time machine back to day one to witness it; winning converts would not be so difficult.  However, that would negate the fundamental need of faith. Faith is the evidence.  Faith it would seem, is easily contested and in many wholly discarded.  Expect to those who hold it.  We Christians maintain and must continue to maintain that this life is a life of faith.  Through faith we find further evidence of that which we had faith in.  The created, having experienced an inward creation that transcends even the outward, leaves behind a testimony.  If you are a father, how do you know you have a son?  If you are a son, how do you know you have a father?  The creation testifies of it.  The born-again Christian has experienced creation within themselves.  They have been dead in trespasses and sin all their life.  Until at one point, the call of God drew them out of sin to an experience of conversion where in simple faith they reached out to Jesus for cleansing.  It was in this that the past sin was removed, and the walk begins.  Continuing in this state of grace can result in contrast to the world, but not confidence in the one converted.  There is forgiveness of sins, but not freedom from all sin.  There is acquaintance with Christ, but not complete intimacy with Him.  The faith to gain forgiveness must be further exercised to find sanctification.  One must have the witness within himself.  The Holy Spirit dwelling within.  When you do, the manifestation of the Holy Spirit will make you a new creation.  The same way Jesus was created in the womb of the virgin Mary, so we are born of the Spirit.  Created new, through the Word of God.  “For he spake and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.”

 

A born-again experience is what we must stand on.  As the world rushes toward self-aggrandizing, self-justification, and a creature culture; we answer with the words of the Psalmist: “created in me a new heart and renew a right spirit.”  When creation is within it is proof positive of the Creator and what he has done through all the ages, world without end.  The empirical evidence we have is holiness.