In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. Everything was exquisitely designed right from the start. The one who was there in the beginning says it was “very good.” Gen.1: 31.
Anyone who evaluates his handiwork and says it is “very good” has a purpose in mind. God’s purpose in creation was to declare his glory. David king of Israel writes, “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.” Ps.19: 1.
But mankind has chosen not to give God the glory he alone deserves. Man fails to live the way God intended the creature created in his own image to live. “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way” Is. 53: 6.
The result is the carnage and death we see all around us. But God loved the world he created, so he started to draw us back to himself. In his own time he sent his Son Jesus Christ to save his people from their sin. When one embraces that Savior as his Lord he receives the gift of eternal life. He can look forward to his Savior's return as the Lion of Judah – the one to whom the scepter and ruler's staff belong. Everyone will then call him “Lord”... far better to do that now, when doing so will gain one eternal life and joy unspeakable, than to be forced to do so later, after the King has come to judge all mankind.
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