Creation and the New Year
“In the beginning *** created the heaven and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)
It is appropriate for Christians to begin the New Year by referring
back to the beginning of the very first year.
The first verse of ***’s Word is
also its most important verse, since it is the foundation on which everything
else is built.
Even ***’s great work of salvation is irrelevant and futile
without His prior work of creation, for only the Creator of all things could
ever become the Savior of all things.
If a person really believes Genesis 1:1, he or she should have no
difficulty believing anything else in the Bible.
The very first object of
saving faith (Hebrews 10:39) is the fact of
special creation by the word of *** (Hebrews 11:3).
The verse is comprehensive and scientific, viewing space (“the
heavens”) and matter (“the earth”) as functioning in a framework of time (“in
the beginning”).
This space/matter/time “continuum” (as scientists call it) has
not existed eternally, nor is it still being created, both of which heresies
are standard beliefs of all forms of evolutionary pantheism (including most of
the world’s religions and philosophies, ancient or modern). It was created—and
even completed in the past.
This foundation of all foundations is, clearly,
the only sure foundation upon which one should build a life, or an
organization, or anything.
A firm renewal of one’s commitment to special
creation, as literally recorded by divine revelation in the inerrant Word of
***, is thus the proper way to begin a New Year, or a new home, or a new
career, or a new family, or any phase of a Christian life.
This is the time to
confess and forsake all doubts and trust ***’s Word!
In the beginning of the
first year, *** created all things. At the beginning of this year, we should resolve
to believe and obey all things in His Word. HMM
