Created

My Belief

Recently I was marveling at the incredible feats of human ingenuity. As I fly around the country and different parts of the world it is amazing to see the accomplishments of man in many of these large cities. When I stop and think of where man has been and where we are today, it is truly mind boggling to think of what has been created. Man has created incredible ways to travel and communicate. We have created vehicles that transport us quickly through town, out of town, across the world, to the bottom of this world or out of this world. With the internet we are a truly connected people. We know about everything, everywhere, instantly at the touch of a finger. Shoot, we even created machines that create new things. Man has done all of this.

Another interesting fact to think about is that nothing else on the planet has done any of this. There are no other animals that create like we create. Termites build impressive structures to live in, but lets be honest, that is just stacking up dirt and spit. As people we have incredible ideas that we plan out, DESIGN, and then execute there construction.

This is exactly what the Bible describes. The Bible says that we are CREATED! We are created to be the apex of creation and we are created in the image of the Creator. We are designed to be like the Designer. I feel as a people we look forward at everything that we have made, but we don’t look backward to see who has made us. Even if you want to take all of the FAITH out of it, just look at it logically. Everything works in a well organized system. We build well organized systems, so who built the entire system. In Romans Chapter 1 the Lord declares that everyone can see Him if they will just look at what He has made. We create amazing things because an amazing Creator created us first.

Scripture

Genesis 1:26-27

²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,^[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

²⁷ So God created mankind in his own image,
   in the image of God he created them;
   male and female he created them.

Application for life

This is a powerful reminder for me in my walk with the Lord. I look at what we have created as a people. We have manipulated elements and materials to build amazing things, but look at the incredible creation of the elements themselves. We have placed rockets in the sky, but look at the sky itself that the Lord has made. We design amazing things, but we will never design a Sun or Moon to rise in such perfect order. I look forward to seeing the amazing things we will do as people, but I stand in awe of the amazing things that GOD has already done.