Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In this first verse of the Bible we find a treasure chest of eternal truth. Before a single planet began it’s rotation and gave the presence of time, the Lord existed.
Dwelling in the infinity of existence, there was no passage or duration of an observable day. God simply existed. He has Himself no first cause. We often wonder how it is that God who made all things could himself have no beginning. In our limited human mind, we cannot conceive of a being who had no beginning.
For human beings, all things that we can see require that they had a start. Someone assembled the components and brought the material thing into existence. A car, a watch, a Television, they do not simply appear one day all by themselves, someone made them.
How then can the most complex, powerful, wise and all knowing being in the universe exist forever with no first cause Himself? If we follow this thought back to it’s origin that God had a beginning, we must imagine that there were an infinite number of creators before Him who were also made by a previous creator.
A deeper question remains: How did the first creator come into existence?
This is the problem with our human understanding of existence. For us as human beings we cannot conceive of a being who has no beginning. Yet this is what the Bible makes as it’s first claim.
In the beginning, before time existed, God already existed, having no beginning Himself.
He is the most pure, the most complex, the most holy of all beings. Infinitely limitless, consistently benevolent, inconceivably full of love and compassion. Indescribably perfect, impossible that He could do any wrong or commit any unkindness.
Only an infinite mind could apprehend his existence and person. Yet He has made Himself know to us through the human flesh of Jesus Christ.
It is in this great God that we have our every help, and find our every need met. He longs to be needed by us, persists to make Himself know to all men. His ever-present hearts desire is that all might be saved and none lost. So by length of time, long-suffering of centuries, He withholds the justice of his wrath and waits for men to repent.
In your walk today with Jesus today, remember to whom you belong and how great your God is. There is no problem, need, despair or hurt that He cannot take care of. You will never be alone, you will always be loved. There is no creature or obstacle that can ever separate you from His love. In a short time He will call you from your temporary existence here on earth to an eternal home where you will never hurt, be lonely, hungry, tired or suffer the fear and fate of death again.
Rob Robinson
