Coffee With The Lord

My Faith Conviction about Origins…

In a wonderful passage that addresses the coming of “The Lord’s Servant” – Jesus, the Messiah, you find this inspired declaration about how everything around us came to be – Isaiah 42 verse 5.

In a time that worships “science” and for the most part bows before human theories of origins, I embrace the plain reading of the inspired Genesis 1 record, and find in verse 5 of this passage a refreshing inspired summary of what it reveals…

“Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and what comes from it, Who gives breath to the people on it and the spirit to those who walk in it!”

It happened by “chance!” or “It just happened to turn out that way!” How many times have I heard those explanations for things that had “the finger of God” written all over them!

Really?! I read a passage this morning during my time of “Coffee with the Lord that flies in the face of that thinking and repudiates it! Exodus 2:1-10 – The birth, preservation, and Divine purpose for Moses! You should read it for yourself in the Bible!

Think about it… Brutal taskmasters of God’s people, Israel… Determined plans by an evil leader to destroy all the male babies… Midwives who defied them and feared God… An innovative “mother of faith”… A caring, courageous sister… a timely scheduled bath by a king’s daughter… Eyes that were drawn to a little, handmade “ark” in some bulrushes among the reeds of the Nile … And GOD preserved, and providentially provided for the deliverer of His people!

Listen, God has a thousand ways to fulfill His will when we can’t think of one!!! I don’t believe “HAPPENSTANCE” is a word that should be in any Christian’s vocabulary.

Over the years I’ve watched it – observed it’s transforming power – THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL! Today during my time of “Coffee with the Lord” I found myself agreeing wholeheartedly with Apostle Paul as he affirmed “THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL” once again at the end of Romans (Romans 16:25-27)!!

God stands behind the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ! It saves us from sin, it strengthens us, its message is for all people of the world (i.e. “the nations”) and it produces a transformed life of faith-obedience! …

You’re right Apostle Paul! “To the only wise God be glory FOREVERMORE through Jesus Christ! Amen!”

No wonder, Paul at the beginning of this epistle Paul declared, “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ! It is the power of God to salvation for EVERYONE who believes! … For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written ‘The just shall live by faith!'” (Romans 1:16-17)