Monday, December 20, 2021
God Creates the Heavens and Earth
For Us
To Live
and
to Love In
Isaiah 45:12
I made the earth,
and created humankind upon it;
it was my hands that stretched out the heavens,
and I commanded all their host.
John 1:11
He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him.
Words of Grace For Today
The world is a wonderful place for us to live life, from the beginning to the end.
That’s what God does when God creates:
God creates the earth … and it is good and we can make enough evil to ruin it completely, or we can enjoy life fully.
God creates us … and creates us good, and free to love, so we are also capable to make enough evil to ruin everything completely, or we can enjoy life fully.
God creates the heavens and their host … and God creates everything good and we can make enough evil to ruin the universe completely, so completely, for ourselves and all future generations, or we can enjoy life fully.
Because we can be so evil, when Jesus comes, when the Holy Spirit comes (even though we are God’s own people) in our sin we reject Jesus’ way, we reject the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that makes us holy, that makes us saints. Instead of living well, we live … lost.
And lost we are lonely, and lonely we are desperate, and desperate we do so many unthinkable things to others, and at the same time to ourselves.
Thankfully that is not the end of the story.
Jesus comes as a vulnerable infant born in a barn, which starts a life that continues to a death and a resurrection … by which God creates a story of God’s unconditional love for us all, and God’s response to relentless hard hearts that make enough evil to ruin the universe completely, so completely, for ourselves and all future generations. In response to our Evil God forgives us and gives us renewed life, capable of loving again …
…
so that we can choose to enjoy life fully.