16. CREATION
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For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power & Godhead; so that they are without excuse (Rom.1:20).
1. God's Creation is the greatest proof of His existence.
2. It is said in all the ages that there has never been & never will be a man or woman just like you. You are unique & have no double. Every life is a fresh thought from God to the World.
3. All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
4. I cannot see how it would be possible for a man to look down upon the earth & be an atheist, & I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens & say there is no God.
5. Man is both the greatest miracle & the greatest problem on earth.
6. There's nothing that's ever without significance or without meaning.
7. How has man turned God's glory into shame?--He's polluted the Earth & invented the lie of Evolution!
8. Anything that glorifies the marvels of God's Creation is not very much marvelled at anymore because it's too much proof of a Designer & Creator & Builder & Architect of the Universe!
9. The human body is the most perfect machine ever made!
10. God's permanent creations of the earth, sun, moon & stars are forever!
11. It's so wonderful to look at God's Creation! Everything God does is right. Everything is the way it's supposed to be, even the little sparrows!
12. During an eclipse of the moon: Jesus is the Sun, we're the moon & the Devil's like that ol' black shadow of the Earth trying to gobble us up!--But he can't!
13. You can't help but see the marvel of God's handiwork & design when you study His Creation!
14. I marvel how in this tiny backyard there is a whole miniature universe of Creation: plant life, animal life, & bug life!
15. Birds are almost always a sign of peace, except, of course, birds of prey.
16. God compares Man to many of the creatures He has made.
17. It's the Devil's whole religion to make people worship things & the Creation more than the Creator, the effect instead of the cause.
18. God's visible Creation is an illustration of the things in the spirit.
19. Man has invented a lot of things which are imitations of God's creations.
20. The most precious, priceless thing which God ever made is a human soul!
21. There is either a spiritual analogy for nearly everything natural, or there is a natural example for nearly everything spiritual.
22. The opposite of destruction is creation!
23. Lord, help us to be like trees, planted strong in Thy Earth & nourished with the water of Thy Word & fertilised with the food of Thy very body!
24. The ultimate picture of God's creative love for man is a beautiful woman!
25. No human being, no human spirit is created without the touch of the Divine, the touch of the hand of God!
26. One little humble lowly chicken out in some poor man's chicken yard produces a marvel of creation every day!--A beautiful ovular orb! Even one little lowly egg is a marvel of God's Creation!
27. We're hung out here in space on nothing except the power of God!
28. I don't believe in killing anything we don't have to--the Lord made everything for a purpose.
29. Why should we worry, when God's Creation keeps right on faithfully going, constantly turning, revolving, rising & setting, not questioning, not worrying, not faltering, knowing God's in complete control!
30. Although the whole Creation testifies of the existence of the invisible God, the World refuses to receive the testimony, because they choose to be ignorant!
31. We look at the trees, the sky & the beautiful Creation all around us, & we know God lives, we know He's there as here!
32. Even the Garden of Eden had to have somebody taking care of it! The Lord expected man to improve His Creation.
33. The whole idea of all Creation is the struggle between good & evil & to show the difference!
34. Everything God has made in the natural is an illustration of something in the spiritual!
35. The Lord Himself is a master artist. He really puts some swirls up there in His sunsets & His colours are gorgeous!
36. God made a few ugly things so we'd appreciate the pretty things, a few thorns so we'd appreciate the roses!
37. Most things God created are beautiful, & if some people aren't, it's not God's fault, it's because of the way they've been perverted & contorted through sin & time & the Fall.
38. The Devil cooked up evolution to try to deny the Creation of God!
39. Everything in God's Creation proves God exists--its perfection, its organisation, its synchronisation, its harmony, its unity, its balance!
40. The material Creation is the proof of the existence of the immaterial God!
41. When I see that glorious Creation of God I know that everything's under control, except what man has messed up.
42. This is a place too fair,
To be the child of chance & not of care.
No atoms casually together hurl'd,
Could e'er produce so beautiful a World!
43. To see God in everything makes life the greatest adventure there is.
44. Only God's Creation is alive, reproductive & self-repairing!
45. Just one tree is so marvellous a mechanism, a creation of God, that man can't even understand it!
46. Even one little cell is beyond man's comprehension!
47. Woman was God's last & ultimate creation & the most beautiful work of art that He ever made!
48. The whole Creation is pyramidical, spiral, conical or spherical--from the atom to the Universe!
49. To me, a tree is just about the next most beautiful thing the Lord ever made besides a woman!
50. The Creation that God made is alive and self-reproductive, but what man makes is often waste & total death.
51. Nothing's ever wasted in God's Creation.
52. Whenever there is a copy, somewhere there must be the original reality!
53. God's greatest work of art was a woman--His crowning creation!
54. God created us to be beautiful & He gave each one of us our own particular beauty.
55. God's whole Creation is a work of art which portrays His message of Love!
56. In spite of all that men suppose
Earth is the centre & the place God chose!
57. The creation of Heaven & Earth were done,
Before God even created the sun!
58. Do not confuse which is the greater,
Things made are less than the Maker.
59. Astronomers are too much inclined
To enlarge each distance that they find.
60. The Devil hates a soul's creation,
And even more that soul's salvation!
61. God's Creation is a witness without words!
62. A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, "Where is God?" The Christian answered, "Let me first ask you. Where is He not?"
63. Man creates nothing really; he merely discovers what God has already made & he merely discovers how to put it together to do the things God has already created it for--& sometimes things He didn't make it for!
64. Just as behind a watch there had to be a watchmaker, so behind the intricate precision & timing of this great Universe there had to be a great Creator or Designer!
65. God made a machine that could talk in one day!--You! And it took man 6,000 years to do the same!
66. Life is proof that there is God, because life is a miracle!
(See also No. 736, 1338, 1387, Childcare Handbook III.)
67. GEN.1:1,2 In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. And the Earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
68. GEN. 1:27 So God created man in His Own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
69. GEN.2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
70. GEN.3:1a Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
71. GEN.8:22 While the Earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
72. EXO.20:11a For in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day.
73. 1SA.2:6 The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
74. NEH.9:6 Thou, even Thou, art Lord alone; Thou hast made Heaven, the Heaven of heavens, with all their host, the Earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and Thou preservest them all; and the host of Heaven worshippeth Thee.
75. JOB.10:8 Thine hands have made me & fashioned me together round about.
76. JOB.26:7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the Earth upon nothing.
77. JOB.37:6,10,13 He saith to the snow, Be thou on the Earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of His strength. By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straightened. He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for His land, or for mercy.
78. PSA.2:7 Thou art My Son: this day have I begotten Thee.
79. PSA.8:3 When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained.
80. PSA.19:1 The Heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth His handywork.
81. PSA.24:1,2 The Earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof: the World, and they that dwell therein. For He hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
82. PSA.33:6,9 By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. For He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.
83. PSA.74:16,17 The day is Thine, the night also is Thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the Earth: Thou hast made summer and winter.
84. PSA.89:11 The Heavens are Thine, the Earth also is Thine: as for the World and the fulness thereof, Thou hast founded them.
85. PSA.95:5-7a The sea is His, and He made it: and His hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is our God; and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.
86. PSA.100:3 Know ye that the Lord He is God: it is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
87. PSA.102:25 Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of the Earth: and the heavens are the work of Thy hands.
88. PSA.104:24 O Lord, how manifold are Thy works! In wisdom hast Thou made them all: the Earth is full of Thy riches.
89. PSA.104:30 Thou sendest forth Thy Spirit, they are created: and Thou renewest the face of the Earth.
90. PSA.139:14 I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are Thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
91. PSA.148:5 Let them praise the Name of the Lord: for He commanded, and they were created.
92. PRO.3:19 The Lord by wisdom hath founded the Earth; by understanding hath He established the Heavens.
93. PRO.16:4 The Lord hath made all things for Himself; yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
94. PRO.20:12 The hearing ear, & the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.
95. ISA.45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
96. ISA.45:12 I have made the Earth, and created man upon it: I, even My hands, have stretched out the Heavens, and all their host have I commanded.
97. ISA.66:2a For all those things hath Mine hand made.
98. JER.8:7 Yea, the stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming.
99. EZE.37:5,6 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live.
100. JOH.1:1-3 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.
101. ROM.1:20 For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the World are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.
102. ROM.11:36 For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to Whom be glory for ever. Amen.
103. 1COR.8:6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we in Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom are all things, and we by Him.
104. 1COR.11:12 ...Woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
105. EPH.2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
106. EPH.3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the World hath been hid in God, Who created all things by Jesus Christ.
107. COL.1:16,17 For by Him were all things created, that are in Heaven, and that are in Earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist.
108. HEB.1:1,2 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, Whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by Whom also He made the worlds.
109. HEB.3:4b ...He that built all things is God.
110. HEB.11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
111. 2PE.1:3 ...His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness.
112. 2PE.3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the Earth standing out of the water and in the water.
113. REV.4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.
(See also GEN.1:1-31; JOB 12:7-10; JOB 26:7-14; JOB 37:1-23; JOB 38:1-41; JOB 39:1-30; PSA.104:1-32; PSA.135:7; PSA.147:15-18; ECC.3:14-15; ISA.50:2,3; DAN.2:21; AMO.5:8; NAH.1:3-6.)
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