Let there be Light

I fancied that the Lord worked on models of all his creations.  Making sure all the flagella would work properly, and the tendons and nerves would go through the foramen and fissures.  In my mind He did this just for fun, because His first prototype was always perfect.  I am not very creative like that, I guess in my fancy (and in reality) the Lord is more than I am and all I am incapable of.

AW Tozer believes He spoke it all into being.  So His canvas was in His great mind.  His models moved at the speed of thought - God's thoughts.  When He said, "Let us make men in our own image," in the time it took to think it He had fashioned the nervous system that we are still trying to figure out.  He had worked out how potassium would move in and out of the cells, how ATP would be made, what elements would be in the human form, the immune system, the simple wonder of DNA.  Astounding, don't you think?

It gets better, He only said it once: "Let there be lights in the sky to separate day from night," and there were the sun, moon and stars.  Each with their individual properties, their secrets and mystique.  Each with their cycles for as long as He decides then their deaths.  When lesser gods speak again and again to keep things moving, the Almighty spoke once and when He speaks to the lights in the sky again it is to stop the sun, or to blot is out, it is to cast the stars to the earth.  He only speaks to change it, because the Word He spoke initially is so mighty, so eternal.

So He said, "The LORD is a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in love and truth, maintaining faithful love to a thousand generations, forgiving wrongdoing, rebellion and sin" (Exod 4: 6-7).  He said, "[I have] plans for your welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope" (Jer 29: 11).  He who said this is faithful, He is Truth and He is Love, and He knows that you are weak and wretched.  That you are dust, doomed to fail.  But He said it all (and more) anyway.  Whenever you doubt Him, when fear overtakes you, think on these things and as long as the sun rises, the moon and stars shine, as long as day gives way to night, be encouraged - His Word is still in effect.  And by extension His love for you.