One fact that is pointed out in my heart: “ALL things are Created by God!!!”
ALL things came from nothing! What is, was Spoken into existence!
Ex nihilo is Latin for “from nothing.” The term creation ex nihilo refers to God creating everything from nothing. In the beginning, God Created the Heavens and the Earth (Genesis 1:1). Prior to that moment, there was nothing. God didn’t make the Universe from preexisting building blocks. He started from scratch.
The Bible never expressly states that God made everything from nothing, but it is implied. In Hebrews 11:3 we read, “By faith 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 are visible.” Think on this! Have you seen an ion, a molecule? Yes! Once, DNA was studied, in ‘modern’ times Sans James Watson and Francis Crick are credited with discovering the double helix structure of DNA in 1953. However, their work was based on the research of many others, including Rosalind Franklin, who used X-ray crystallography to provide crucial data on the structure. Earlier, Friedrich Miescher had first identified DNA in 1869, and Erwin Chargaff later discovered rules about its chemical composition.
- Friedrich Miescher: First identified the substance he called “nuclein” in 1869.
- Rosalind Franklin: Her high-resolution X-ray images were critical to determining DNA’s helical structure.
- Erwin Chargaff: Discovered that in DNA, the amount of adenine equals thymine, and guanine equals cytosine.
- James Watson and Francis Crick: Used the data from Franklin and others to build the first correct model of the DNA double helix in 1953. They were later awarded the Nobel Prize along with Maurice Wilkins for this discovery.
Scholars take this to mean that the universe came into existence by divine command and was not assembled from preexisting matter or energy. Things that are visible do not owe their existence to anything visible.
Humans can be very creative, but we cannot create ex nihilo. Strictly speaking, we cannot create; we can only synthesize. We require materials from which to build something. God is not so constrained. This is difficult for us to comprehend because of a fundamental law of physics that we are all familiar with. The “first law of science” states that matter (the stuff the universe is made of) cannot be created or destroyed. Matter can be converted from solid to liquid to gas to plasma and back again; atoms can be combined into molecules and split into their component parts; but matter cannot be created from nothing or completely destroyed. And so this idea that God created everything from nothing is not natural to us. It’s not natural at all—it’s supernatural.
The term creation ex nihilo refers to the supernatural event that was the beginning of the universe. It was the moment that God created something (everything) from nothing.
Know this… Fret not, in layman’s terms “Everything is in God’s hands.” Have you tried thanking God for the ‘situation’!
Key points –
– You are still here! Which means YOUR purpose has NOT been fulfilled yet!
Several Bible verses affirm that God answers prayer, including Isaiah 65:24 which states, “before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear,” and 1 John 5:14-15, which says that if we ask anything according to God’s will, He hears us. Other verses assure believers that God hears and answers their pleas, such as Psalm 34:4 (“I sought the LORD, and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears”) and the teachings of Jesus in Matthew 7:7 (“Ask, and it will be given to you”).
Psalm 34:4 is a verse from the Bible that says, “I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears“. This verse expresses the psalmist’s experience of finding deliverance from their fears through seeking God in prayer and supplication. The passage highlights the belief that God listens to those who call on Him and provides both physical and spiritual salvation from their troubles.
- Meaning: The verse is a testament to the power of prayer and the belief that when a person seeks the Lord, God responds and provides an answer.
- Context: The psalmist is describing a personal experience of being freed from fear by turning to God.
- Application: It serves as an encouragement to seek God in prayer during difficult times, trust that God will respond, and surrender fears to Him.
- Theological connection: This concept is echoed in the New Testament, such as in Matthew 7:7-8, which says, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you”.
Key verses
– Isaiah 65:24: “It will come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.”
– 1 John 5:14-15: “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.”
– Psalm 34:4: “I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.”
– John 14:13-14: “And whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”
– Matthew 7:7: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
– 2 Chronicles 7:14: “If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.”