However,
this morning I was blessed with this tiny segment of a beautiful phrase that
goes like this: “So God created man…”[1]
As a living man wondering where I came from, and who I am
in this world of conflicting opinions, these words declare something that
answers everything. I am man because God is God. If I want to know who I am,
and why I am here, I go back to the first chapter of the Bible. It tells me
that, “In the beginning God…”[2] If I let myself go back to the God-beginning,
where the God without beginning caused time to tick its first second, I will
find the one who explains it all. When this same word tells me, “So God created man…” I get where I came
from, and I understand that there is someone who answers all my questions of
who I am and why I am here.
What really stood out to me in these four words is the
conjunction “so”. I double-checked a
Hebrew-interlinear Bible to make sure this word was in the original language,
and it certainly was. This little word tells us that the description that comes
after is a development of what comes before.
The thing that stands out in this case is that what comes
after is an action, and what comes before is a thought. God had a thought about
something he would do, “so” he did
the thing he thought. The triune God thought together that they would make man
in their own image and likeness,[3] and “so”
they made man in their own image and likeness.
From there on in, God’s children are given a very clear
picture of God putting into actions the things he thinks. If he had a thought
to do something, that something got done. If he put his thoughts into promises,
those promises were fulfilled so that what is matches what was thought. The way God wants us to understand
him is that “as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.”[4]Both God’s thoughts, and his ways, are higher than our thoughts and
our ways, but his thoughts and his ways are always in complete conformity with
one another.
The
lesson is simple: since God has always acted in full conformity to his
thoughts, and this has been verified from the very beginning of time, all the
thoughts he has told us about the future, about Jesus’ coming, about the home Jesus
is preparing for us, about the new heavens and the new earth, will be put into
action exactly as God thought they should be.
In
those wonderful cases where God has described future events in such wondrous
symbolism that we are left marveling at how much higher his thoughts and ways
are above our thoughts and ways, when he fulfills what he thought, we will
marvel at the way he put into action the minutest detail of his divine thoughts
so that what he planned and what he did will appear to be one and the same.
As
our brother Paul once said for our edification, “For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for
his glory.”[5]From
the very beginning, God has done what he thought. This will be the same for
every thought of God still waiting its moment on the divine stage.
From
my heart,
Monte
© 2014 Monte Vigh ~
Box 517, Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8 ~ in2freedom@gmail.com
Unless otherwise
noted, Scriptures are from the English Standard Version (The Holy Bible,
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Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.)
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