EVERYONE who reads this paper knows something, I dare say, about the sun. It gives us light and warmth. Without it farm crops would not grow.
You know too about the moon which gives us a soft and gentle light at night. Another thing it does is hard to understand — it controls the tides of all the oceans on earth.
And perhaps you have looked with wonder at the stars in the sky. Although they seem but pinpricks of light, we are told that many of those stars are larger even than the earth on which we live. Great as they are they keep their places so accurately that men guide ships and airplanes according to the stars.
The very first verse in the Bible says, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” You can trust the Bible and all it says. No one has ever proved the Bible to be wrong.
The Bible tells us that once there was a time when there was no light no sun, no moon, no stars. But God began to work and He created all of these things and everything on earth. Then beauty and order reigned everywhere.
God is so great that He did not need materials in order to build the worlds, as man does when he builds something. If a boy wants to make a kite he gets paper, sticks, glue and string. With these he shapes and forms a kite. And if a man wants to make a table he must have wood and other materials and tools.
But God creates. He can form something out of nothing. God had only to speak a word and worlds came into being. We do not understand this but faith accepts and believes the simple statement of the Bible. Hebrews 11:33Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. (Hebrews 11:3) tells us “the worlds were framed by the word of God.” Psalm 33:66By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. (Psalm 33:6) says, “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made.” The ninth verse of that Psalm says, “He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.” The first chapter of Genesis gives us an account of the creation of the sun, the moon, the stars and all that is in the world. It tells us, too, of how God created Adam and Eve and placed them here on earth.
It is well to read these Scriptures and to let God’s Word sink down in our hearts. There are many people who deny that there is a God, but even they are mentioned in the Bible in Psalm 14:11<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>> The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. (Psalm 14:1): “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”
Sad to say, there are many people who say that there is no God. They have listened to Satan’s lie. They will not believe in God or in Jesus, the Son of God. They use God’s name as a curse but they will not let the thought of God enter their minds.
But when such people are face to face with death and eternity, what a change comes. Then they see the awfulness of Satan’s lie. They would give worlds then to have God as their Friend and to have Jesus as their Saviour.
What fools to have waited until it is too late. Forever too late! Dear friend, read God’s Word and believe what God says to you in it. It is there you will learn about Jesus, through whom alone is salvation from sin, now and for all eternity.
ML-08/18/1963