Say So

Isaiah 46:9-11 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

Yesterday I said the answer to the question was “Because I said so.” Some of you took it to mean I was being funny, using our own words uttered to our children who have frustrated us to the point of exasperation. Wrong, I meant it and these are the verses upon which I make my stand.

We cannot imagine how God could sit in eternity before time began, before anything in time was created and could see all that was about to happen in time, IF He were to speak creation into being. He knew before He spoke all the things that would happen in time, from the beginning to the end. I am not amazed so much about His ability to do so as I am that He decided it was all worth it and said, “Make it so!”

Can you give thanks to God for loving us so much that He declared all the suffering in this world to be worth it, just to have our love for Him? There is no other reason God spoke creation into being. God is love and His only motivation for creation itself. He tried to tell us that and we looked at it selfishly.

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