The God of a universe so vast we can barely begin to comprehend it came to find friends and show them the way back to happiness.
Humans have a really hard time grasping the meaning of eternity or life without pain and death. We are limited so much by what we know, by what we have experienced.
It didn’t take the miners long to realise that they had no way to escape—they could only hope for rescue from above. Many felt that there was no way for the men to have survived, but the Chilean people refused to give up hope.
When His children got lost in rebellion, the Creator didn’t abandon them or wipe them out and start over. He launched a plan to rescue them. Jesus came to show humans…
We’ve talked about the wonders of the universe and the power of a God who could create such things. But where is this God when people are suffering? Why does God let evil things happen to us?
The wonders of the universe are beyond imagination. Is it possible that a Being with that kind of power cares about humans? That a Creator God gave us special gifts like self-awareness and creativity? And that He gave us a gift of time off to keep those gifts in balance?
Humans are unique! And the Bible’s Creation story could explain why. It has an answer for why humans have abilities beyond the need for survival. And it tells what might be the purpose of these special abilities.
Some will speculate on specific dreams, others will fear them, while people of God may want indeed to know more.
We live in a well-designed world, with exactly the right conditions for life, surrounded with living creatures with amazing abilities and interdependent relationships. All these things suggest that there must have been a Creator.
More than anything else, it’s the orderly structure of the universe that suggests that the universe was intelligently and purposefully planned.