The First Page Was Written by the Same Hands That Were Nailed to the Cross
We are establishing that we’re living inside the greatest story ever told. We’ve met the Author who stepped into His own story.
Now let’s roll forward with Moses’ “In the Beginning”.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1
Six breathtaking days follow. The crescendo of creation.
• Day 1: “Let there be light.” Boom. Photons explode into existence.
• Day 2: Sky and seas separated, an atmosphere for the first time.
• Day 3: Dry ground rises. Seeds, trees, flowers, and forests burst forth in color.
• Day 4: Sun, moon, and a billion billion stars flung into place like diamonds on black velvet.
• Day 5: Oceans swarm with whales and minnows; skies fill with eagles and hummingbirds.
• Day 6: Lions, elephants, puppies, and every land creature.
And then, the grand finale, the reason for the whole symphony:
Humanity.
Male and female.
Image-bearers.
God bends down, shapes dust with His own hands, breathes His own breath into lungs, and says, “This one is like Us.”
“Then God looked over all He had made, and He saw that it was very good!”
(Genesis 1:31 NLT)
Very good.
Not “pretty good.”
Not “meh, it’ll do.”
Very good. The Hebrew actually rings with delight: tov me’od, “exceedingly, wildly, abundantly good.”
John’s words reminds us.
“In the beginning the Word already existed…
God created everything through Him, and nothing was created except through Him.
The Word gave life to everything that was created, and His life brought light to everyone.” (John 1:1–4 NLT, emphasis mine)
Every sunset you’ve seen?
Every mountain that’s taken your breath away?
Every time you’ve gazed into the ocean?
Every baby’s laugh?
Every perfect bite of pizza?
That was Jesus. His first entrance in the story wasn’t Bethelhem as his fingerprints were all over creation. The One who slept in a manger is the same One who, ages before, placed galaxies into their final resting place.
Every time Genesis says “And God said…,” it was the pre-incarnate Christ, the Word, doing the speaking. Every star was spoke into existence by the same voice that later calmed the storm-tossed waves with “Peace, be still.”
Every creature was imagined and crafted by the same hands that would one day let nails be driven through them. Jesus is not a late addition to the story.
He is the reason the story exists.
Colossians 1:16 puts it even more plainly:
“Everything was created through Him and for Him.”
The Milky Way? For Jesus.
The Grand Canyon? For Jesus.
Your heartbeat? For Jesus.
Your personality, your passions, the way you cry and laugh, all of it was dreamed up by Him, spoken by Him, and declared “very good” by Him.
So when you feel insignificant, remember: The hands that sculpted Everest and set the boundaries of the oceans are the same hands that were pierced for you.
When Christmas rolls around and we set out the little nativity scene with the tiny baby, we need to see the bigger picture:
That baby is the Creator lying in His own creation.
The One who spoke the universe into existence now chooses to arrive helpless, needing fed from his mother – that me made.
The hands that spun Jupiter now have tiny fingers wrapped around his mother’s thumb.
Unfathomable.
So the next time you watch a sunrise, hear birds at dawn, or feel sand between your toes, do this:
“Thank you, Jesus. You made this. You made me. And You said it was very good.”
Because the same Author who wrote the opening line,
“Let there be light,”. is the same One who, on a dark Friday afternoon, cried,
“It is finished,”. and turned the worst evil into the greatest rescue.
He started the story with love.
He entered the story for love.
He will finish the story with glory.
And every page in between, including the one you’re living right now, is written by the same nail-scarred hands.
Wake up, sleeper, to the greater story.
Your Creator became your Savior.
And He’s not done creating in you.
The first chapter was “very good.”
The last chapter will be infinitely better.
And He’s the Author of both.
Are you starting to see the tale you’ve fallen into?
Jesus the Author.
Jesus the Creator.
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