Creator - The One Year Book of Discovering Jesus in the Old Testament
Creator
“In the beginning God created” (Genesis 1:1). How did God create? He spoke each aspect of creation into being. Throughout the rest of the Old Testament, we continue to see the power of God’s creative word as it comes again and again through the prophets: “This is what the LORD says.”
It is no accident that the first words in the Gospel of John are exactly the same as the first words in the book of Genesis. John writes: “In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him” (John 1:1-3, emphasis added). This sheds light on the mystery of who the “us” was when God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us” (Genesis 1:26, emphasis added). John tells us, “The Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John wanted us to understand that Jesus is the agent through whom everything created was called into being. He tells us that Jesus is the logos, the outward expression of all God is. So every time we read the phrase “then God said” in the first chapter of Genesis, we know that it is Jesus, the living Word of God, accomplishing God’s creative work.
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.
He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation,
for through him God created everything
in the heavenly realms and on earth.
He made the things we can see
and the things we can’t see—
such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world.
Everything was created through him and for him. (Colossians 1:15-16)
If everything was created not only through him but also for him, that means everything that exists, exists for Jesus. Nothing in the universe was created or exists for its own sake, but rather to make the glory of God more fully known.
Creator of all there is, I marvel at what you have made, what you have spoken into being. Seeing you as Creator helps me to see what I was made for. I was made for you, and I am yours.
