Who Created You and All That Exists?

Psalm 104

1 Praise the Lord, my soul.

Lord my God, you are very great;
    you are clothed with splendor and majesty.

2 The Lord wraps himself in light as with a garment;
    he stretches out the heavens like a tent
3     and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters.
He makes the clouds his chariot
    and rides on the wings of the wind.
4 He makes winds his messengers,
    flames of fire his servants.

5 He set the earth on its foundations;
    it can never be moved.
6 You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment;
    the waters stood above the mountains.
7 But at your rebuke the waters fled,
    at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;
8 they flowed over the mountains,
    they went down into the valleys,
    to the place you assigned for them.
9 You set a boundary they cannot cross;
    never again will they cover the earth.

The psalmist describes God by the power he exhibited when He created the world.  The psalm is very similar to the 1st chapter of Genesis with its images of darkness and light, the heavens and the earth, and the watery chaos that eventually subsided on the earth.  At the heart of what we believe is that God created us and everything that exists.  Why is this so important?  

1. If something else created us and everything we see around us, then that something is God!  

2. When we see the heavens and the earth in this psalm, they are not described as coming into existence through an evolutionary process with no beginning.  They were purposely made by a Creator.  They reveal God's greatness and grandeur. While there may be elements of an evolutionary process, (I.e. the water flowing over the mountains and into the valleys) this does not negate God set in motion and superintended this process. 

3. Someone has said, "something cannot come from nothing".  Similarly, "nothing can come nothing".  There had to be a first cause.  Christians believe the causative agent to be God.  God spoke and it came into existence.  

So, if you believe in a Creator, what kind of relationship do you think God wants to have with you?  In Genesis 1, the writer says that we are made in God's image.  In God's image, male and female God created us. 

One of the ways we know we are created in God's image, is we alone wonder why we are here.  We alone in God's creation have a sense of right and wrong.  We alone have a soul that longs to connect with its Creator.  

God's Word created all we see and experience.  John 1 says, "the Word became flesh and lived among us."  Jesus, who was with God in the beginning, took on human flesh to reveal God's plan for humankind.   

While there are other explanations as to how we got here, they don't hold any weight with me. The only alternative to a purposeful Creator is that we are the result of some random and accidental explosion that created life and the complexity of who we are as human beings. We are thoughtful, conscientious beings who long to know where we came from, and where we are going.  We long to love and to loved, which is our ultimate purpose.  

So let me ask you a question?  What explanation of Creation are you going to bet your life on? Do you think you evolved from some pre-biotic soup that eventually became a complex human being. Or, were you made in the image of loving God who wants to know you and share the beauty of what He made with you?