"For by Him [Christ] all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible . . . "
God created everything that is--everything that has a real essence; and He did this through His Son, Christ our Lord. There may be de-
bates (many legitimate) about when and how God through Christ cre-
ated all things--but the germane fact is that He did. Nothing exists that God did not create. (He did not create sin or any evil--as these do not have a real essence.)
In the beauty of this season, let us thank God for His power and glory in His creation. But let us do this with an eye to something even greater: the re-creation of dead souls, who now make up the regen-
erated members of the body (church) of the Lord Jesus Christ.
[Puritan quote of the day: "The hypocrite takes more care to make a covenant than to keep it, and is more studious to enter into religion than that religion should enter into him." --Thomas Watson, in his ser-
mon, "God's Anatomy upon Man's Heart"]
