In the beginning God… so begins the book of Genesis. Before the beginning was also God. The age-old question of “Who created God?” goes unanswered in the Bible, because God is the uncaused caused. He always existed. How? We cannot say or know. Why? We cannot say or know. Part of the nature of God is being unknowable and beyond the capacity of the creatures He has created. Yet, God has made Himself known to us. He has revealed Himself to us in creation. (A creation requires a Creator, right?) He has revealed Himself to us in the history of the people of Israel. He has revealed Himself to us most clearly through His Son, Jesus Christ. Why? That we know. He tells us in the Bible. From cover to cover we read of God’s love for us, of God’s desire to be in relationship with us. That’s why reading and living God’s word in the Bible is vital to a growing relationship with God.
On this Easter day 2018, the greatest evidence and revelation of God’s love is the remembrance of Jesus walking out of the tomb, thus announcing sin and death had been defeated! You might never have experienced that love, or you might live in it daily. Either way, my prayer for you is you will experience God’s great love in Jesus Christ right now. Know God created the universe for His glory and so you and I might rule over it with Him. Know that when we rejected God (which we read about in Genesis 3) God continued to care for us. Know Jesus is the ultimate evidence of God’s goodness and love.
We will always have many questions about God we cannot answer in this life. That is to be expected of a being whose thoughts and ways are as high above ours as the heavens are above the earth, according to prophet Isaiah. The good news, the amazing news is God loves us so much He has revealed everything of Himself we need to know to experience abundant life and salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ! To God be all the glory, honor and praise!