John 1:3. BY HIM - IN HIM Everything that has come into being has been created by the Lord Jesus Christ who is "The Word." He was "with" God in the sense of the nearness, the closeness the Father and Son share. "The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever the He doeth, these things also doeth the Son likewise." It is hard for us to conceive of two unique Persons being in such close harmony, and spiritual oneness that they act in perfect unison by their nature. A number of people can be trained to do the same thing in unison for a short time and are limited to one or two things. Identical twins because of their human nature, may think and do a lot of things in the same way under the same stimulus. But the nearness of the Father and Son is that in all things, they act in dependence on each other. Not because either has any limitations of any kind, but the divine nature of the Godhead is such, that perfect unison is maintained even though roles in their activities to reach a goal may be different.
In the creation, the goal was to reach and fulfill the purpose of the revelation of God to intelligent beings that there might be a full fellowship between the creature and the Creator. The perfect relationship of "The Word," the Lord Jesus Christ, with God is perpetual closeness. That closeness is between them through all activities of the Godhead through all eternity. The was no coming and going between divine Persons. Rather, each continually fills a role as the Agent to do all things. "All things were made by Him" means just that. There is nothing so large that it defies human imagination, that was not made entirely by Him. There is nothing so small that it can only be conceived by our thoughts, that was not made by Him. The silly reasoning of people who say all this happened by an act of chance, is basically an attempt to convince themselves and others that we are in control life. They say we are in control of life, and order is brought about by human endeavor - or "mother nature." There is no "mother nature." There is only one "Father God." The scriptures say, "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." "He made everything beautiful in His time."
Not only were there the days of creation, but "by Him all things consist." The ongoing procession of creation is done by Him. Every season has its unique features. The cycle of life is maintained by Him who is "The Word." The persons who begin their existence at conception are given life and survive by Him. Millions are aborted from the womb by sinful people who think that act is their right. The One who gives life is the Life- Sustainer. Nothing that is created, originally came into being apart from Him. Nothing that has appeared since, even though the life in a seed may remain dormant for hundreds of years, can show itself except through Him. Our Lord alone has the keys of life and death.
The impact of a clear understanding, though not complete understanding, of Him who is the One who made "all things," moves us to worship, praise and adoration. It also creates in us an earnest desire to serve Him who has called us frail, mortal men and women to be heirs of God and joint-heirs with Him of all that is His by creatorial right. All angels and heavenly beings; all things visible and invisible; all things tangible and intangible have their source in Him who made "all things" without exception. "How big is God; how great and wide His vast domain!" Every issue in life we may face is known completely by Him. He knows the cause of it, the course of it and the concluding results. It is our great privilege to be made objects of the divine affection of this Almighty Lord. We can trust ourselves without reservation to Him in every time of hurt and suffering, or every time of blessing and comfort.
When there was nothing, something appeared; not just a gathering of substance. Some things are so small, they can't be seen at all, others are seen at a great distance. How an this be? What intelligence behind this can make so much from nothing? The One who was here as a man among men, is Creator-God from the beginning.
Whether material or men, it came from His hand, all power on earth is His. There is not need to fully understand, by faith I know He created all of this. All power is His in heaven and on earth: He is the Source, the Power, the great I AM. It is impossible to know all about everything; the amazing thing is He was here as a man.
None of this was frivolous, there was important business that God in flesh had to come here to do. He started here in obscurity, and Man of perfect purity, experiencing even death before He was through. There was nothing in His nature, spoken of in human nomenclature, that can be fully described in our words. He was a real man on earth, no one can measure His matchless worth, in every way He is supreme Lord.
We are not able to define His grace, seen in this small speck in space, God was walking here on ground He made. His time spent living on His possession, is beyond our limited vision, there was a redemptive price that must be paid. Though He made earth with only a word, the good news must be heard, so from His fullness, grace we did receive. Our faith is not in some vague idea, but placed in a Person who is real, I Jesus the Eternal Word, I believe.
"Father in heaven, I believe with all my heart by the Lord Jesus Christ all things were made. I believe behind all Thou hast done, there is a reason. I believe I am involved in helping to carry out Thy eternal plan, and I thank Thee for the privilege of this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen."