“It is the Lord who created the stars, the Pleiades and Orion. He turns darkness into morning and day into night. He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. The Lord is his name!” (Amos 5:8 NLT).
The Lord is not an absentee creator. He is not merely a celestial clockmaker who fashioned the universe, wound it up and watches time pass from a distance. No, the Lord was active in making all things and continues to sustain all things. He made the great constellations Pleiades and Orion and He made the microscopic amoeba. His creation was fashioned “ex nihilo” (“out of nothing”) by the power of His Word. And He who made it, is He who still sustains it.
His Word made it and His Word sustains and summons it. Who is this “Word?” Yahweh, the LORD, is His name. Yet, the “Word became flesh” (John 1:14). He is called Jesus, the Son of God.
As the author of Hebrews stated, “In these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power” (Heb. 1:2-3).
Creator, Sustainer, and Savior–– the LORD is his name!
PRAYER: Dear Father, we are astounded by Your power! You are Creator and Sustainer of all things. And You have given us Your Son as Savior. We worship and adore You, O Lord. Strengthen us now for this day. In Jesus’ name, amen.