(Colossians 1:16 (NKJV)
Question: Who created the heavens and the earth?
Most everyone would answer, "God." This is correct because the first thing the Bible tells us is that In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
(Genesis 1:1 NKJV)
But did you notice that our lead verse attributes the same act of creation to Jesus? That's because Jesus is God (refer to December 6), and in the beginning He created all things in perfect harmony and accordance with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
This might be a foreign concept to some, but the Bible couldn't be clearer.
Christ is Creator.
That means He is the One who formed and framed the billions of stars that span the universe, the One who engineered the earth to conform to the countless parameters necessary to sustain life, and the One who conceived the complexities contained in a single cell.
Because of Him, our heart will beat 2.5 billion times without taking a break, our ears use a million moving parts to make hearing possible, and our eyes can distinguish millions of different colors.
Jesus also designed the human brain, which contains 100 billion neurons and can make a thousand trillion computations per second and store the amount of information contained in 25 million books (8 million more than the Library of Congress).*
As amazing as all of that is, it doesn't compare with the creative work that Christ accomplishes in us when we surrender ourselves to Him. Only the Creator can take bruised, broken, and burned people and make them overflow with the love and joy of heaven.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
(2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV)
Discuss how Christ’s creative power has been demonstrated in your own life.
Dig into 2 Corinthians Chapter 5. What does it mean to be “in Christ”? When someone becomes a new creation, what evidence should there be?
Decide this next week to focus on living “in Christ.” In what areas are you living like a new creation? What areas need improvement?
