Creation: Part 2

The life of faith encompasses several events and moments that we journey through multiple times during the course of a lifetime. The devotion below is part of an ongoing series that explores these central themes of Christian doctrine.

“Creation is not about the number of days in a story, but about who is the Author of the Story. That Story begins with God making a world that God calls good, and ends with God healing that world and making it new. We ourselves are beloved characters within this greater drama; a story that God delights in telling.”

-adapted quote from theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Believing in God as the Divine Creator of the world carries with it an incredible sense of the sheer enormity of God. God has been present since the very beginning of time itself and somehow exists eternally into the future, even beyond the point when time comes to an end. It’s nearly impossible to even wrap our minds around the idea of what it means for God to be eternal.

How humbling to consider the vastness of God and to recognize that this eternal, all-powerful God created me. We all are but a small ripple in the ocean of eternity, and, small as we are, God still loves us and claims us and guides us.

Peace,
Pastor Nate Preisinger
November 16, 2023