Lesson 2

GOD’S CREATIVE LOVE

God’s greatness is so vast that our merely human words always fall short in our efforts to speak about Him. This need not be surprising, for if we could fully understand God, He would be reduced to our level, He would no longer be God. Yet we must speak about Him and we can only do so by using words.

Christ constantly spoke of His Father in heaven: and He called himself the Son of God. We shall see more about the Father-Son relationship within God later.

Here we can already say that it comes easy to us to call God our Father. We live in a most wonderful and breathtaking universe-a universe that is magnificently planned and executed,
a universe that is so delicately balanced. The man who says there is no God has not thought very deeply about the wonderful world in which he lives.

“IT MADE ITSELF”

The story is told of the astronomer Kirchner. He had a friend who said that he did not believe in God. Knowing that a simple illustration would be better than a long argument, Kirchner had a globe made which was a fine model of our planet. When his friend next called, he at once noticed the globe on the table and turning it on its axis, he said:

“Who made this globe?”

“Oh” replied kirchner, “it made itself”.

 They both had a good laugh, and then Kirchner said:

“You laugh at that as absurd, and rightly so. But it would be a thousand times easier to believe that this little globe made itself than that the large one on which we live made itself”.

The biologist Edwin Conklim said the same thing from another angle: “The probability of life originating from accidents is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.”

MIRACLES EVERYDAY

It is not easy for man to believe in miracles, especially when he does not see them. But the truth is that we are surrounded by most amazing “miracles”. As you sit here now, reading this page, you and this booklet, and the room and the whole village or city are racing through space at the terrifying speed of 68,400 miles per hour.

And yet there are no bumps, no falling over or off the planet. Even at night when you sleep so soundly, you travel at the same speed—never a fraction of a second slower or faster.

We sometimes think that our planet Earth is the centre of the universe. But it is just a drop in the huge ocean of space. Scientific observation has as yet revealed no limits to the