Is God Still Creating?

I love to read Genesis chapter 1, because it is the story of creation.  Verse 3 says that, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."  Can you imagine what is must have been like for God to step out into formlessness and void and say, "Let there be light?" Our creator God flipped on the light switch of the universe and brought the world into being.

A legitimate question can be asked, "Is God still creating today?" Or was He like an absentee landlord who brought it all into being and walked away leaving it up to humans to fend for themselves?  Can the miracle of re-creation happen in a very dark world?  Can anything new take place on a planet gone mad?  There are a multitude of theories relating to the earth's creation, but as biblical Christians, we take the Genesis account seriously.

The fact is, the same God of Genesis who brought this world into being is still creating today.  Isaiah 43 says that God wants to do a NEW thing.  "For I am about to do a brand-new thing.  See, I have already begun!  Do you not see it?  I will make a pathway through the wilderness for my people to come home.  I will create rivers for them in the desert! (Isaiah 43: 18 & 19, NLT)."  In Psalm 40 He gives a NEW song. In Psalm 51, He gives David a clean heart and puts a NEW and right spirit in him.  In Romans 7:6, Paul says that we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the NEW way of the Spirit.  And I love 1 Corinthians 5:17 which says that if any person is in Christ, he or she is a "NEW creation; the old has gone, the NEW has come."

The word "creation" may be old, but it is also ever new.  God is RE:CREATING.  There is a fresh wind blowing.  It is the Wind of the Spirit.  He is continuing to give new life.  He is firing up old ministries and making them new.  He is developing new forms of worship.  Our recreating God wants to give us a fresh new touch with new attitudes, new outreaches and new opportunities.  That's our God.  Hear His voice and submit to Him.

If you are living in the past or if you are plagued by doubt, I invite you to get on board with what God is doing.  I challenge you to let the Wind of the Spirit do a NEW work in your heart.  You'll be amazed at what will happen.  Freshness will invade your life.  Hope will begin to eclipse despair.  By letting God create a new you, the best is yet to come!  You will have a new future which won't be defined by your past.  

Go for it!  He really is still creating.

Your Life in 2012 is Significant

     It's just the beginning of a new year.  The book is starting to open today.  This month.  This New Year.  It's a book with blank pages.  So much yet unwritten.  So much to be told.  It's a book with lots of blank pages.  You and I are the human instruments that God is using to write bold accomplishments.

     You probably feel as I do when such an enormous truth begins to dawn on you:  "What can I do?  It's too much for me.  Wait, this is scary."

     Hold on!  Remember, the power is HIS.  He is the Publisher.  He's simply looking for writers; for people who will trust the power of His Holy Spirit to work in the common, ordinary affairs of their daily lives--family, business, relationships, schoolwork, difficulties, ministry opportunities.

     It's because these mundane details of life are the decisive, history-making points of life, we teach as we do.  Your life is significant.  Your ministry is powerfully significant.  Wonderfully, frighteningly significant.

     As we enter 2012 God offers to you and me a blank book of possibilities, and now He asks what we are going to write.  Let's write wisdom, and let's write it in BIG letters.