The Universal Gift

The Universe is a Divine gift to man. It was designed for the occupation of man (anthropological and teleological arguments for God’s existence logically show this fact). The cosmic home, with all its furnishings, was presented to him. Nature, from its highest manifestations to its lowest, was to minister to his man and need. All things within the universe are valuable from greatest to least. The smallest things in nature are valuable. Who can tell the value of the tree, of the herb, of the grass of the field from the simple observation of a mere seed? Diamonds are not more valuable than these; yet they are the constant and everyday gift of God to man. The Universe or Creation at its most rudimentary and fundamental level is not caprice or chance. It is design.

The universe is increasing, literally. Every day the gift is increasing in value. It becomes more expansive. It is better known, and more thoroughly appreciated. Scientific research is given to man to see the richness of the Creator's gift. Science has shown that since its inception the universe continues to expand and grow. All the gifts of universe are productive; time unfolds their measure and allows sequence and sequential action. Time like the universe itself expands/unwinds in entropy. The things of the universe including the universe itself lends itself to deductive and inductive reasoning, thereby the universe and everything in it discloses their meaning and demonstrates its value. The fact we are able to deduce and induce in a structured manner is...structure...again a design.

The universe was created with purpose. It was not arbitrary. It was intentional and planned. There is a mind behind the creation in the Creator. One of the great objects of creation was a plan to manifest the love of God to humans, which was shortly to be brought into existence after the creation of time, space and matter (Genesis 1:1). The light, the sun, the stars, and the creation of man; all these were representative of God’s compassion towards man. These were designed, not to display not just the mastery of his handiwork but to give man a way out of his own dilemma he would fall into in short order by Genesis 3.

In His wisdom, God desired for the happiness of man a and to teach truth. God walked with man in the Garden just as he did with the Disciples. The world is a great school. It is well supplied with teachers. It will teach an attentive student lessons. All the Divine creation is instructive. It not only is alive itself, but it’s also made to sustain life. Abundant life produces fruit, and fruit has within it the very things it needs to produce more life. Seeds. God created man without means, but it was not His will to preserve him without means. God tells man where he is to find his food both physical and spiritual. 

We must use the creations God has designed for the preservation of our life. He made food for the body, His word for the soul. God has provided all things for the preservation of all life both physical and eternal. Let us learn to trust God for the necessities of life in times of adversity. In adversity faith is drawn into the circle of life also. In this way even faith gives life, eternal life. Any man who has great wisdom understands they must receive their provisions from the hand of God.

God—the Great Artist and Poet—delights in the scenes and objects of nature in which He has exercised His skill and power to create. He revealed to us His own perfect understanding and enjoyment of what he had done in creating the beauty of nature—when He had pronounced it to be very good. But the Creation was formed also with man's enjoyment in mind so that man would glorify God. Everything that is useful to man has some bright and beautiful thing connected with it because it finds its origin in God.

This prior description is now contrasted against the mind of the non-believer. The difference between the way the believer views the universe, and an atheist is profoundly juxtaposed. The atheist sees a dead pointlessness to the universe. It just happened. It had no purpose, it just occurred. An empty nihilistic view of all of reality and why we and it are here. Can the atheist see beauty and recognize it in the universe? Of course they can but they see it as an accident of fate, not an end product of love and divine mind. In the end this mindset is folly.

"In the beginning God." There have always been men who have denied the existence of God. All down through the ages their voices have been heard, and their books have been read, and their arguments have been promulgated or shoved right in our faces. Atheism is the supreme folly of which man is capable. It divests life of all spiritual enjoyment of real nobility of character and degrades almost to the level of the brute by removing or denying acknowledgement of the very One that created it. Denial is a defense mechanism, a tool used to defend one’s mind against something they don’t want to believe. Denial most often is a denial of a truth which then opens the door and allows one to believe a lie.

The atheist must be blind to all the appearances of Creation, for one sincere outlook upon them would demonstrate the mockery of his creed of godlessness. No one of any wisdom or intelligence can look at the complexity of a biological cell, periodic chart or atomic structure and not see design, intent and innate intelligence. To say otherwise is denial or self-delusion. The fool has said in his heart that there is no God.

There are many that even dare articulate this conclusion aloud, screaming it in the faces of those they wish to convert to their view. They either bludgeon them with it or silence their view completely through volume. They do this even while their inner consciousness tells them that what they are saying is so utterly devoid of truth that it is criminally absurd. As with anything that is criminal, it will eventually need to see justice and correction. It will attract the retribution of heaven either in this life or the next. 

Atheism is proven to be absurd on its face by the history of the creation of the world. It would be impossible for a narrative to be clearer or more divinely authenticated than that of the creation. The very existence of things around us is indisputable evidence of its reality. If the history of Creation be a myth, then the world and man must be myths also. But if the universe is a fact, then it follows that this ancient narrative must be true.