DAILY DEVOTIONAL – August 14, 2020
“Perfect Timing”
Prayer: Our Eternal God and Creator, we worship You not because we can understand You but because You are so glorious above and beyond our finite and corrupt minds. Any god we can fully understand would not be a god worthy of honor and praise. By Your grace and power Lord, grant us the eyes of faith that alone see through the brokenness of this world to Your marvelous Light. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.
Scripture: Galatians 4:4-6
“When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
Devotional – “Perfect Timing”
To the evolutionary mind, not only the universe itself but we ourselves as humans are nothing more than a fortuitous accident. I think it is fascinating how much faith it takes to believe in evolution. In their desperate attempts to deny the God they know exists, even Harvard Nobel laureate professors like George Wald will go so far as to say that given enough time “the impossible becomes possible” and “the possible becomes probable and the probable virtually certain. One has only to wait: time itself performs the miracles.”
When did time start? How did it start? According to the Oxford Science Dictionary time is defined as, “the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future regarded as a whole.” By mankind’s own scientific definition of time, we reveal how absolutely incapable we are of understanding or explaining the glory of God’s Creation; including His creation of time and space. Oxford says that time is the “continued progress” of existence. Well, both by using the words “continued” and “progress” Oxford assumes that we know when existence started. But we don’t. Science will try and convince you it started with the big bang…but where did the stuff that exploded in the “big bang” come from? How long had it been around? When did carbon’s “progress” start? Did time exist when there was no one there to measure it?
The evolutionists would have us believe that given enough time, nothing exploded into something, and then given even more time the effects of that explosion made that something into bacteria and then bacteria into monkeys and then monkeys into humans. Okay, but where did the nothing come from that exploded into something? By definition “nothing” is the absence of something. We as humans only know of “something” – we are something – yet despite science’s utter failure to have an answer for this, so many today believe that “something” came from “nothing”; and they credit time for this “miracle”.
What is time? Science ultimately doesn’t know. When did it start? Science ultimately doesn’t know, but what man fails to comprehend, God has revealed to those who seek the Truth. We were told long ago what time is in Genesis 1, “In the beginning, God.” Where did nothing come from? “In the beginning, God.” How did nothing become something? “In the beginning God said…” and then there was. This God has so graciously revealed Himself to us through His Creation so that we may know Him and live by Him. Yet sadly, so many would rather put their faith and hope in the statistics and probabilities of “science” that make your chances of winning the lottery while being struck by lightening and being attacked by a shark an absolute certainty…even if you’ve never been to the beach or play the lottery.
In his second letter to a young pastor named Timothy, the Apostle Paul warns Timothy and exhorts him with words that will only be exponentially more important with every new generation. Paul tells Timothy, “I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
We rejoice in that fact that as it says in our text for today from Galatians 4, “When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
Our hearts to again rejoice in the unsearchable wisdom of God who despite our sinfulness and rejection of Him chose not to forsake us and write us out of existence much like many today attempt to do to God. Instead, He came into our midst, came into this broken and wicked world that we have made and was born a man in order to die in our place. Mankind’s vain and futile attempt to be god unto himself by insisting on an intellectual understanding of everything God has done only blinds us to the wisdom of God that He miraculously manifested right in front of our eyes as the Christ child lay in a manger, and as He later would be lifted up on Roman cross for the world to see. As Scripture says in 1 Corinthians, “18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God…20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?.”
“At just the right time” as Romans 5 says, “Christ died for the ungodly.” At just the right time, our Lord Jesus through whom all space and time were made, will come again for the last and final time. Those who worship the creation rather than their Creator will find that Last Day to be one of eternal regret. However, for those who worship Jesus as God and Lord, we will find that Day to be the visible fulfillment of the Truth we already know by faith in God’s promises. The time is now friends. Today is the day of salvation. Tomorrow is guaranteed to no one.
Thanks for spending time with me again in God’s Word. Have a blessed weekend, and I hope to see all of you this Sunday as we continue our Sunday Advent series entitled “Holy Visitations.” God bless you, and remember, that God has forgiven yesterday, is with you today and has already taken care of tomorrow. Amen.
