The Maker: March 9-14

March 9

The Lord Is Our Help

March 10

My Eyes To the Hills

March 11

The Maker's Residence

March 12

The Maker Gives Life & Breath

March 13
The Maker of Our Soul

March 14

The Maker Makes Everything

Connectivity

Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something. This premise applies to every person and field of study. Some sciences study theories. 
For instance,  the existence of our planet and how it came to be is constantly being studied and debated on every academia level, and in other fields of study. Creationism versus Evolution. Creation by God is not a theory; evolution is. 
String theory, which studies whether or not everything is connected, is still being studied by physicists, who will not be able to prove this theory. Why not? Because we are not connected in that way.
We are all connected by The Word of God whether we believe it or not. Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." and John 1:1-3 "In the beginning was The Word, and The Word was with God, and The Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made."
The Word of God worked with God and The Holy Spirit to create everything that has ever been created, made, brought into being. It is this which connects all of us, not string, not evolution. 

Inside The Nucleus-Redemption Is Curricular

God is THE GOD OF EVERYTHING.

God is The God of science. He is Jehovah-Bara, Creator God.

He created the universe and everything in it in 3 days: Genesis 1:1-8, 14-19. In between those 3 days He took the time to create land and seas, separating the seas below from the waters above. Check Genesis 1:9-13 for verification. On that day God also spoke into existence grasses, herbs, fruit trees and gave them all the ability to reproduce themselves.

He created in the seas upon the earth and called into existence life within them. He created skies and called the birds of the air to take flight into the skies. Each of these was also given the ability to reproduce its own kind. In one day this was done.

God created all species of land animals: the beasts, the cattle, the creepers. And each of these was called to multiply and reproduce itself.

Then God created man and set him in this beautiful place which He had created with the help of His Son and The Holy Spirit (Genesis 1:1-2, 26; 2:1). After this, God rested, for He had done much work in such a short period of time. And, also, to show us that after we have worked we need to rest in Him. We are given an example by Him to rest in His presence, that our energies may be restored. How sweet our God is!

Science is a simple word that covers a multitude of categories, some of which are: astronomy, biology, radiology, chemistry, agriculture, animal husbandry, pharmacology, botany, and mathematics. Which brings us to the next statement: GOD is The God of Mathematics. He created the atom and all the subatomic particles, which are protons, electrons and neutrons. God tells us what things are and shows us what things are made of. But does He get the glory for this? Seldom, if ever, is the right answer. Many times men and women of science and mathematics and any category we could name, take credit for the knowledge they have received through their perseverance and endurance to determine what is and what is not. But God Is Omniscient. He knows EVERYTHING. And He shares what He knows with us, especially if said knowledge serves His purpose.

God is God. His heart is to see all mankind saved. His will is to see all mankind saved. Once saved, we undergo a sanctification process via The Holy Spirit. While we undergo this refining and purification, we begin to change into the person God sees us as. It is the holiness process. For God has said to us, “Be holy for I am holy”; knowing that without holiness no one can see The Lord God. So begins the change in us, transforming us from unrighteousness to righteousness. No longer are we the servants of sin, but now we are the servants of God. His purpose is being fulfilled in us, as it could be in you.

You see us and wonder why we don't behave like you do. You question our habits and our faithfulness to the things of God. What God has cleansed us of, we no longer have a desire for. It is not that we can't do the things we used to do, we just don't want to do them any more. The stronger our desire is for God and the ways of God, the less we want to be like the world around us. We do not wish to conform to the norm: we stand out from the crowds because we are Christians. We are Christ-like because this holiness process is also making us more like Jesus: more loving, more forgiving, more bold, more gentle, more pure and self-sacrificing.

What makes a Christian tick is the unconditional love of God through Jesus Christ into this world. We are called by God to be different but not alone, to be strange but not creepy, to be humble but not weak, to be bold but not aggressive. God calls us to holiness but not self-righteousness. For it is the selfishness of the heart that separates a person from God. It is self-centeredness thinking that ignores God's voice calling a person to repentance and salvation. Selfishness and self-centeredness is what turned Lucifer, God's beautiful musical angel, against God, thereby causing war in heaven.  

The result of that was that God threw him out of heaven down to earth, where he became the prince of the air, the ruler of the darkness of night, spiritual wickedness in high places. What he could not accomplish in heaven he is trying to succeed in here. He still has the abilities he was created with. He can make music and use it to lure people away from God's Word. He knows the Scriptures better than many of us and attempts to use them against us. He twists God's Word for his own purpose: to capture more souls and take them into hell with him for eternity.

Satan is a master of deception: what you see is not what you get. Not everything is as it appears to be. It is not what it is, but it is what it is not. Though this angel was created beautiful, his beauty is marred by his evil. He is a caricature of the creature God created him to be. His light is dark, but by manipulating what God has created he is able to draw people to him, where he captures them and binds them with sinful activities, which could be anything from gaming to murder; from lying to robbery; from casual sex to a whoring heart. Satan knows how to please people and entertain them long enough to get them hooked on the bait, before he reveals his true self when it is nearly too late. Alas, for some it has already been too late.

But Jesus death and resurrection breaks the bonds of sin which the devil, Satan/Lucifer, ties people down with. Jesus died to save a wretch like me. Grace is amazing, isn't it? God's plan of salvation began in Genesis 1:1 and ended in John 19:30 when Jesus said, “It is finished”. While the plan of salvation is finished, the purpose of salvation is not. You and you and you and you and yes, you, need Jesus as The Lord and Savior of your life and your soul.

The phrase “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free” is not from Hollywood; it is God's Word to us, as written in John 8:32. Jesus is Truth: John 14:6. He makes us free: Isaiah 61:1 revealed in Luke 4:18-21; 2 Corinthians 3:17.

We do not make ourselves free of the desires to sin. We can try self-help programs to get away from the sinful activities, but only Jesus Christ can remove the desire to sin from the heart of the sinner.

The first step is to admit you are a sinner, that you have sinned against God and God's Word.

The second is to repent of your sins against God to God. Repent means to confess and to turn away from.

The third step is to receive Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, into your heart.

--These steps are done together, sometimes simultaneously depending on the person's decision to believe--

The fourth step, after surrendering your heart to Christ, is to submit yourself to God and make yourself available to His service, which of course begins with the holiness process, as stated above.

The fifth step is to continue and not give up; to endure without complaint; to go through and not turn back to the sinful nature you left behind.

The sixth step is to cross the finish line.

Perhaps there are other steps in-between the 4^th and the 6^th, but I just simplified it somewhat. God's plan of salvation is a success. God's purposes, however, are still being revealed, still being fulfilled. There is much more to this than we know, or even could presume to know. However, I will still believe that God is on the throne, that He is Supreme over all others, that He knows what He is doing and that He will succeed in His purposes for this world. I trust Him to know what is best for me. Do you trust Him with your heart? With your life? I do.