Sinclair Ferguson

and into nothing.

So of course there was nothing there.

Now we would be fooling ourselves if we thought that we could grasp what this means.

We know absolutely nothing that is created out of nothing.

And so this is an amazing, an amazing indication of divine power.

But not only divine power, in the third place, the creation is a work of divine genius, isn't it?

If you just think about the variety in any area of creation, the solar variety and the solar system, the human variety, the animal variety, the God who created the rabbit created the giraffe and the hippopotamus and the elephant,

The God who created the little goldfish created the whale.

What an imagination God must have to be able to speak our world into being and to demonstrate this beautiful genius by the sheer variety of all things.

It is an amazing thing, isn't it?

how God creates things out of the dust of the earth.

He creates animals.

He creates human beings in Genesis out of the dust of the earth.

And when we think about that variety, we are surely lost in wonder, love, and praise.

There's a fourth element in creation, and it emerges in Genesis 1.

It unfolds in the rest of the Bible.

And in a sense, it's still unfolding in our history.

and that is the sheer vastness of God's understanding, what he has embedded in creation.

If you think of what we are discovering today technologically, everything we discover today technologically is the way in which we can employ or discover what God originally embedded in creation.

And we know we're only at the beginning.