“I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.”
(Psalm 121:1-2 ~ ESV)
It is interesting that, for those who believe in God, but
believe that God used evolution to make the heavens and the earth, they are
stuck with a God who uses external, impersonal means to bring about his
purposes.
If every time God’s book tells us that God created all
things, or that he made everything in heaven and earth, he really means that he
intervened to direct the next phase of evolution, that is the kind of God we
have.
Therefore, when God’s book reveals all the “work” he is
doing for our salvation, and we have already dumbed God down to a Creator who
only tweaks the mindless processes of evolution, then we only have a God who
waves his magic wand once in a while, directing huge portions of space, time,
and matter, to basically do their own thing. What we will get out of our
salvation is just as uncertain as what we will end up being at the end of
humanity’s evolutionary journey.
Our salvation, if salvation even means anything once we have
minimized creation, is whatever time, space, and circumstance choose to do for
us.
On the other hand, for those who believe in the God who
wrote us his book, and believe that when he writes that he “made heaven and earth” just as described in his book, he
personally made everything, then every mention of our salvation is also just as
precise and personal as every mention of creation.
In other words, the same God who created also saves.
Whatever kind of God he is in creation is the kind of God he is in salvation.
He has not changed from the first “Let
there be” of creation,[1] to
the cry from the cross, “It is finished!”[2]
He has not changed from the day he raised Jesus from the clutches of death, to
the present day when death surrounds us everywhere.[3]
I’m not asking which God we prefer, for our preferences do
not make God who or what he is. I’m pointing out the sad obvious. When we are
deceived by the evolutionary religion in any way whatsoever, we are left with a
God who leaves his children alone in an impersonal and uncertain world.
However, when we are alive in the truth, we see the joyful obvious.
Help constantly comes from the LORD, from Yahweh, from the Lord Jesus Christ,
the one who expressed his glorious power by making the heavens and the earth.
Every time we look up at the heavens and see the magnificent tapestry of stars
and planets, and we know that our God is so personally involved in creation
that, “He determines the number of the
stars; he gives to all of them their names,”[4] we
know that God knows every one of his children, and he also calls us by our
names.
When I am invited to pray, “Hear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy,”[5]I
know that God means for me to call on him in expectation that he will
personally answer. I do not throw up impersonal prayers to a God who
impersonally answers by tweaking my circumstances for his distant throne room,
and leaving me to figure out my way through whatever troubles I am facing.
No, the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom God’s book says, “All things were made through him, and
without him was not any thing made that was made,”[6]
told his brothers, “I will never leave you
nor forsake you,”[7]
and that is exactly what he means. He sends his church out into the world to
proclaim his glorious gift of salvation, but with the promise, “behold, I am with you always, to the end of
the age.”[8]
Since there is zero reason to believe in evolution at all,
including zero reason that God would use the impersonal and impossible process
of evolution when he wrote in his book that he personally created all things,
there is also zero reason to doubt anything God says to us about our salvation.
And, if we have received the gift of salvation by God’s grace
through faith,[9]
then everything God says about prayer he will fulfill in our lives in the same
personal way in which he brought all things to existence by his own creative word
and power.
We just need to be as absolutely personal with God in prayer as
God is absolutely personal in answering his children.
© 2015 Monte Vigh ~ Box 517,
Merritt, BC, V1K 1B8 ~ in2freedom@gmail.com
Unless otherwise noted,
Scriptures are from the English Standard Version (The Holy Bible, English
Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.)
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