Today's encouragement comes from Hebrews 11:3, where we read these words:
"By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.”This is an amazing verse (above). None of us were around when The Holy Trinity—through the Word (Christ)—created the universe. We know that The Lord spoke it into existence; and that He did this "ex nihilo," (from nothing). But this still requires faith. Does faith rule out reasoned considerations of how it (the creation) had to occur? No.
We would have to be quite doltish of mind, to think that anything can come from nothing. An infinite regress of causation is also patently absurd. Evolu-tion is a thinly-veiled futile effort to explain reality without God. So, it turns out, that though we truly do exercise faith—our understanding is the only one that makes sense.
[Puritan quote of the day: "Does God expect us to have anything from our-selves? Who expects anything from a barren wilderness?” —Richard Sibbes, in "Glorious Freedom"]
