God’s Authority Over His Creation

I find it amazing that God spoke and everything was created. (Psalm 33:6-9)

To speak something into being implies power and authority over that thing.

As humans we cannot do this. No positive affirmations from us will speak anything into being, we do not have that power (contrary to what those in the new age/new thought movement think!)

And, therefore, only God has authority over creation because He created it.

You cannot have authority over something unless you either created it or were given authority by the creator.

When we see examples in the Bible of God controlling the weather, the seas, the animals and so on, it’s not just because he has supernatural power, but because he has authority over all that he created.

If a Christian chooses to believe in theistic evolution, then they choose to believe in a diminished God, one who, because he didn’t create all things cannot therefore have authority over all things…including us.

This logic then goes, that if God doesn’t exist or he exists, but didn’t create us, then we get to choose how we live. We get to set the rules. And because of this thought pattern, we now live in a society that seeks to live according to ‘their own truth’.

The Bible is full of verses proclaiming God as the one and only Creator of all things. Through the Old Testament in Genesis, Exodus, Job, Isaiah, the Psalms and in to the New Testament in Matthew, Acts, Romans, Colossians, Ephesians, Hebrews, and Revelation, it is abundantly clear that God is the creator of the universe and all that is in it, not a theory based on assumptions.

"Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created"

Revelation 4:11

We can take great comfort knowing that God is in control of all things and

he is sovereign over all things because he created all things.

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

Job 12:10

Meanwhile, we get to teach our children who the God of the universe is, that they can find their identity in Christ and not the world and that they can put their trust in the God who is Creator of all, almighty and all powerful.