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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
2 Corinthians 5:18
‘All things are of God’
Read Genesis 1:1-31
‘All things,’ past, present and future; ‘all things,’ in heaven, earth and hell; all things,’ regarding angels, men and devils; ‘all things,’ good, bad, or indifferent ‘all things are of God’. This is high doctrine. This is gospel doctrine. This is soul-cheering, heart-comforting doctrine to those who know God. To the degree that we are able to receive this blessed truth of Holy Scripture that ‘All things are of God’, our hearts will be at peace, resigned to the will of God, submissive to the hand of God, confident of the providence of God and content in all things.
All things are of God in creation. God made heaven, earth and hell and all that they contain: ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth’ (Genesis 1:1). This world did not just evolve out of nothing, by some unexplainable explosion in space. God Almighty created all things by the word of his power through his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made’ (John 1:1-3). Jesus Christ our God is the sovereign Creator and Sustainer of all things. ‘By him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist’ (Colossians 1:16-17). To embrace evolution in any form is to deny God altogether and depart from the faith of Christ. ‘Through faith [belief of God’s revelation] we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear’ (Hebrews 11:3).
