Genesis 1:1-19
Before anything of the present universe existed, God, who has no beginning, was there. And He allows us to be present at the unfolding of His work of creation. When we wish to make some sort of object, first we need certain material. But with God, it is enough for Him to speak and everything is made out of nothing. He says and there appear the heavens, the earth, light, the clouds, the seas, the dry land, the firmament with its lights – the sun, the moon and the innumerable stars – the enormous variety of plants and animals; there appear the infinitely large to the infinitely small. This account, which is so majestic yet so simple, gives a definitive answer to the great question men have never ceased to ask; "Who hath measured the waters . . . meted out heaven . . . weighed the mountains? Who hath created these things?" (Isaiah 40:12; ; Isaiah 40:26; Proverbs 30:4). Yes, who has designed the perfect shape of the snowflakes? Who has formed the extraordinary structure of the most ordinary insect or chosen the colour and perfume of the most common flower? Hebrews 1:2-3 gives us the answer; Jesus, the Author of our salvation, is also the Creator of all these wonders (see also Proverbs 8:27-31).