Christ, the Creator

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. – John 1:1-3 (NASB)

Imagine having whole worlds for your playground! John described the Son of God as the Word that God used to create all things. Can you picture Jesus, the first incarnate being in the universe, speaking and causing light to appear? Can you hear His voice ring out causing frighteningly, beautiful angels to roar into existence?

He witnessed the birth of the Himalayas. He gouged out the Grand Canyon. There is a mind bogglingly huge mountain on Mars called Olympus Mons. It is over 16 miles tall and its caldera is nearly two miles deep. It is so big that it takes up an area as big as Arizona. This amazing mountain was His doing.

Solomon described Him as the Wisdom of God who worked beside the Father to create all things. In Proverbs 8:22-30, Solomon recorded Wisdom (Christ) as saying, “The LORD possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old. From everlasting I was established, from the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills I was brought forth; while He had not yet made the earth and the fields, nor the first dust of the world. When He established the heavens, I was there. When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep, when He made firm the skies above, when the springs of the deep became fixed, when He set for the sea its boundary so that the water would not transgress His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth; then I was beside Him, as a master workman.” (NASB)

How beautifully understated! “Master workman” indeed! There is literally nothing He cannot do. He paid as much attention to the span between the galaxies as He did to the crystalline structure of each snowflake. Any work of man loses its resolution at some point. With Jesus’ workmanship, there is infinite detail limited only by our ability to manufacture precise enough instruments.

The Christ Child came to create again. He arrived to deliver His greatest offering: salvation for mankind, reconciliation with God, and an invitation into the intimate relationship the Godhead shared. What a God! What a Savior!

And the amazing thing about this omnipotent, omniscient and infinitely creative God is that He loves us. He did all these wonderful things simply out of a deep, abiding affection for His creatures. Look at how Solomon described the Master’s motivation: “And I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him, rejoicing in the world, His earth, and having my delight in the sons of men.” (Proverbs 8:31, NASB)