Creator God & His will...

EVIDENCE OF GOD'S PLANNING

Remember those early Star Trek episodes?

They always had a moral to the story. 

Usually one that Kirk would recite in the closing in moments of the final scene.

The moral always went something like, "There are certain areas where man is not meant to meddle." 

Then science began a great period of growth and discovery and man began to laugh at that old fashioned notion.

Man seems to be able to dive into any area of science and accomplish a greatness. 

Then the ecological issues became apparent and man discovered that he can, knowingly or unknowingly, destroy the "delicate balance" of creation.

Is that "old fashioned" notion more applicable now than ever? 

Can we believe the thinking in those old science-fiction stories that they were right in saying that there are areas where man is not meant to meddle.

Has God built a world so intricate that man daring to medle with creation is likely to destroy that balance and twist the plan out of shape? 

No one will be shocked to find out that the Bible does not address modern science as directly as we would like.

But we can ask if God had a plan and we can seek evidences of God's planning in His word.

Then, using our reason in obedience to the Scriptures we can come to some conclusions about the questions before us. 

First, we need to ask, "Did God create?"

Take a look at Genesis 1:1 and

Psalms 104. The answer is obvious;

the Bible reports that God did. 

Second, is there some divine plan behind the creation?

Study these scriptures for insight into Yahwehs plan:

Romans 8:28

Romans 9:11

Ephesians 3:11 and

Revelation 1:1.

Does there seem to be a plan?

What is the nature of that plan? 

There is a tendency to understand all of the talk in the Bible about God's plan and purpose in a spiritual sense. 

That is the higher priority, in terms of salvation and eternal life - but is it the only sense in which God has planned? 

Read Isaiah

14:24-26,

23:9,

46:8-13.

What has God planned here?

If God's plan for salvation includes the spread of the Gospel & the teaching that Jesus Christ is the messiah, what else could it include?

Psalm 104. Teaches us about God's purpose in the creation. "Study to show thyself approved" meditate on Yahwehs message of truth and you will truly know him!

God also discusses His creative work with a man. That man was Job. Job had questioned the plan of God, challenged the wisdom of it.

God loved Job and did not condemn him but He sought to teach Job the foolishness of judging what man does not understand.

Job 38-39.

God talks about His work, His secrets, and the "little things" that God had taken the care to plan. Many of these things we take for granted as

"accidents" or

"just the way things work."

In these chapters we see God's deeds and the planned elements of our world. Be aware of the facts that many of the items we are looking for we tend to view as just nature.

Job 38:29-30 speaks of the origin of frost and ice. 

We tend to think of that as a result of only temperature.

Ask yourself, why is it a result of temperature

Why 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Celsius?

In the centre of all we find Yahweh, His will, His way & His design.

The knowledge that God has planned and the evidence that nothing has been excluded from His careful planning, is a source of comfort for us.

Consider again Romans 8:28 and look at how God's planning makes that promise a comfort in any type of situation.

God's plan is not that of some "overlord" looking to play us, His will is for each of us, Gods plan is not impersonal.

It includes each of us as individuals. The plan is unfolded in its most important facet in Ephesians 1:4.

That plan includes you personally, individually.

If you have any doubt that God has considered you as an individual, read Psalm 139.

YOU will find comfort there!

Now tie that comfort in with the phrase in Ephesians

"He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world."