Lesson 7: Worshiping the Creator

It's easy to take things for granted, particularly things that we have always known or experienced. How easy is it, for instance, for young children to take their parents for granted, whom they have known all their short lives. How easy for us, too, to take for granted the sun, the sky, the air, or the ground beneath our feet.

However, have you ever stopped to think about how much we take existence itself for granted? That is, how often do we stop and ask the famous philosophical question, Why is there something instead of nothing?

Why does our universe itself, and all the majesty and grandeur and astonishing things in it, exist to begin with? What great logical contradiction would occur were our universe, and we who are in it, not here?

According to the latest scientific theory (they tend to change), our universe once did not exist. In other words, ours is a contingent existence, and it's a miracle that we are here at all. And despite all sorts of myths about the universe arising from absolutely nothing (the Big Bang Theory), or from some kind of mathematical equation, our universe exists because God, the Creator, has made it and everything in it (Genesis 1:1, God bara).

God's unutterable love, personality, and character, were personified in Christ, our Creator, our Sustainer, our Redeemer, our Mediator and our Glorifier. It was at the cross that mercy and truth met together, that righteousness and truth kissed each other. —6T, p. 59. Christ became one with humanity, that humanity might become one in Spirit and life with Him.—Sons and Daughters of God, p. 237. Christ transcends time, matter, and space.

The world is held in check by the expressed royal law liberty of Jehovah (which is holy, just, and good) (which is the foundation of His government, the revelation of His Character, and the standard of His judgment) and the immeasurable grace of Christ. So, God's faithful sentinels beware of syncretism, age of consciousness, relativism, ecumenism, dominionism, universalism, globalism, humanism, legalism, cheap grace, spiritualism, and evolution.

My Take and SOP
We do not make enough of Deuteronomy and Exodus: https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/90.456

"The sin of the Egyptians was that they had refused the light which God had so graciously sent to them through Joseph.": https://dolatiaschan.com/4/5737255

"God's excess of goodness, benevolence, and love was a surprise to the world, of grace which could be realized, but not told.": https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/32.1570

"The season of distress before God's people will call for a faith that will not falter.": https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/74.1415

"Without obedience to His commandments no worship can be pleasing to God. Proverbs 28:9; Ecclesiastes 12:13; 1 John 5:3; John 14:15: https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.1970

"Had the Sabbath been universally kept, man's thoughts and affections would have been led to the Creator as the object of reverence and worship, and there would never have been an idolater, an atheist, or an infidel." https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/133.1970

"Should faith and works purchase the gift of salvation for anyone, then the Creator is under obligation to the creature.": https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/31.51

"The sinner may resist this love, and may refuse to be drawn to Christ; but if he does not resist he will be drawn to Jesus..." (John 12:3): https://m.egwwritings.org/en/book/820.10207

Remember, our loving Creator will never use billions of years of death, violence, destruction, suffering, and mass extinction to create us per this falsehood told by evolution. He did it out of selfless love for humanity and all creatures.

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