He Knew, And Yet He Still Created!
Genesis 1:2
There are moments in the Bible tht are unimaginable to us. In our small, human frame of reference, there are many things, particularly about God that we simply are not equipped to perceive and understand. The phrase at hand is one such occasion. What was it like when there was no formal structure yet to the creation of God? What must it have been like when all there was were waters and God alone? The moments before God utter the fateful words "Let there be Light" must have been awesome moments indeed!
We believe that god is a sovereign God. We believe that He is omniscient, that is that He knows everything that will ever happen because it is a part of His determinative plan. The Bible says, for instance, that Christ "... being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye (the Jews) have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain..." By the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God is highly significant. It does not imply that god knew what would take place independently of Him, but rather that He knew, because He had determined it would indeed happen!
But this is not a lesson on predestination or election. Rather our point here is that God knew of all that would happen after He set creation into place and the flow of history into movement. He Knew!, and yet, He still created!
Think of the grief that God has borne since the fall of Adam and Eve. All of the evil and sin, all of the lost dead awaiting eternal punishment. Think of your sin and mine! Think of the Cross and the suffering His only Son would undergo!
Some would call this an evil act! the New Agers believe that Jahweh is an evil, foolish God because he created man flesh and doomed him to an almost endless round of incarnations to escape his karma. some believe that if God created man, knowing he would sin, that this makes God responsible for the evil, as "He could have stopped it".
What this really points to is the immense, fathomless love of God. He still created, even though He knew what was coming and what it would cost Him! He withheld nothing of Himself from man, even knowing the terrible truth of man's real nature. He withheld not His only Begotten Son in that "while we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly". That kind of love ought to thrill our souls and cause our hearts to leap within us for the joy of the simple truth of it!
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