Sinclair Ferguson

We know there is so much more.

But we will never create out of nothing.

At the end of the day, we are always engineers.

We are employing in whatever sphere what God has invested in creation.

If you think of these little objects without which we are frightened now to go anywhere.

The powers, the powers that enable these little machines to operate, they're all embedded in the original created order.

Perhaps if Adam and Eve hadn't fallen, we would have discovered them more rapidly.

But we do discover them.

And like everything else, it's a reminder to us every time we use anything that is a, quote, invention of modern technology, we need to remind ourselves it's not creation of modern technology.

It's an engineering of the powers that God has invested in creation.

Fifthly, we should never lose sight of the fact that everything God has created, He has created for His own glory.

We spoke about the mutual relationships of the Trinity in a previous study.

And that's a wonderful way for us to think about creation, to think about the Father bringing this wonderful world into being for the pleasure of His Son and for the joy of His Spirit.

And Christ, the Word of God, being the instrument of creation in order that creation might be for His Father's pleasure.

And the Holy Spirit hovering over the waters and beginning to bring this orderliness out of the darkness and the lack of order in the original stuff of creation.

And doing it as a kind of love present for the Father and for the Son.

So that not only in our redemption but in the whole act of creation.

We understand that God does all things for His own glory, but His own glory is never adversative to His children's good, and He has done this also for our good.

There's a sixth thing that we should notice, and many of the best Reformed theologians, I think, have understood this very well.

that there is a special grace in creation.