Continual creation

Creation “ex nihilo” is the concept that God created everything there is out of nothing. Every atom found its being in the moment God spoke it into existence. Every animate and inanimate reality that we will ever observe, and those too big or too small for us to comprehend, exists through God’s intentional creative act. More than that, God maintains this creation.

Colossians 1:17 reads, “And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” The breath-taking, sprawling web of life that we live in is held together by the hands that formed it. The microscopic and unobserved processes that contribute to our most basic tasks, happen because God who began creation continues to hold them together. We are held together by the continually creating God.

The reason there is something and not nothing, the reason there continues to be something and not nothing, is the love of God at work. Today, take the time to thank God for the tiny, mundane, and easily overlooked things in your life.

What part of your day to day bears the mark of a creator? What part of your life is held together by that ongoing creation?


Colossians 1:17