New Beginnings

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New Beginnings

by Brent Goodge

New Year. 2022. Wondering how we can go back to a pre-Covid, pre-Zoom, pre-arguing over vaccines and masks kind of life. But to get to a real new beginning, let’s go back to earth’s actual beginning.

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). We live in a world where the Genesis account of Creation is considered a myth. Those who believe the God of Heaven spoke and things happened are thought to be ignorant.

The words of Genesis 1 and 2 are echoed throughout the Bible. When speaking the Ten Commandments, God pointed to the seven-day week as continual evidence that He alone is our Creator (Exodus 20:8-11). When identifying Himself as the only true God, the Bible points to His creative power (Psalm 33:8, 9). When Paul explained the “Unknown God” to the wisest men of Athens, he told of the One who “made from one blood every nation of men” (Acts 17:26).

The arguments against Biblical Creation, rather than weakening the faith of the faithful, should strengthen it. Peter foretold that in the last days scoffers would “willfully forget that by the Word of the Lord the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water” (2 Peter 3:5, 6). Who should we believe? The scoffers who have grown in strength over the past 175 years? Or the God who prophesied their coming 2000 years ago?

As Christians, we must realize that Satan’s attack on Creation is an attack on Jesus Christ Himself. At least three times, the New Testament clearly identifies Jesus as the One who spoke our physical world into existence (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:2). Doubting the Genesis account is to question the power and honesty of Jesus Christ Himself.

But there’s an even greater story of beginnings that the Bible portrays. “For it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6). If Christ cannot speak physical light into existence, how could He ever create light in the hearts of His enemies? (Romans 5:8). What right

or power would He have, were He not our Creator, to be our Savior? To fulfill His New Covenant promise to write His law in our hearts and remember our sins no more? (Hebrews 10:16, 17).

The final messages of warning to planet earth call all humanity to worship Jesus Christ as our Creator. This call depicts Creation as an integral part of the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ (Revelation 14:6, 7).

As sinners, our only Hope is in our Creator, our ReCreator, Jesus Christ. “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10). Trust Him to re-create your heart today.

About The Author Brent Goodge lives in Whitfield County and wants Christ to re-create a new heart in him every day (1 Corinthians 15:31).