In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
It is God's nature and desire to create!
From the beginning of time, He has loved His creation.
He created the earth and the people on it
so that they could live together in perfect harmony.
We humans have also achieved something.
We have progressed in knowledge and wealth.
But in EVERYTHING we have achieved, we have just used what God has created.
We ourselves have not managed to create anything.
Not a single planet,
...not a single animal,
...not a single plant.
Then God said:
"Let there be light!"
And there was light.
He created something out of nothing by this one word:
"Be!"
He did not use any raw materials.
Who then would have created these raw materials?
Throughout time God has continued to create.
He Himself says:
"Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh.
Is there anything too hard for Me?" [Jeremiah 32:27]
In Egypt He stirred up nature's powers in order to lead His people out of slavery
and into the promised land.
In Damascus He took from Paul everything he had
and then He lay His creative hands on him and opened his eyes to a completely new world.
Despite having wealth and good standards of living knowledge and intelligence,
people's inner spiritual lives are a desert where nothing grows.
Modern knowledge and professional advice from a world of modern psychologists
will not help us.
It all comes out from a wilderness,
where nothing grows.
All of it is far away from God's creative powers.
Even today, God creates something from nothing!
Even today He creates through His Word!
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are My ways higher than your ways
and My thoughts higher than your thoughts"
Through these thoughts He does something completely new in us.
Through them, His creative powers come into our life, too.
Through His Spirit, WE can also do something new in OUR surroundings.
'Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it?
I will even make a road in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.'
'Because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert,
To give drink to My people, My chosen.
This people I have formed for Myself; They shall declare My praise.'