This morning, we continue to learn and grow in our understanding of how God brings revelation to us.  After all, just one single revelation from God can radically transform our lives, our communities, and even the entire world. 

We learned about God revealing Himself through His word and how important it is to dedicate time to just pursuing the Presence of God just like the students of Asbury college are doing now. 

We learned the powerful reality of what happens when we choose to pray in the Spirit making perfect intercession.  We also learned about how God, through the Holy Spirit within us, often speaks to us inside our minds through our thought life and imagination.  We often call these dreams or visions or even just hearing the voice of God.

This morning, we turn back to the beginning as we see how God pours out His revelation and speaks to us through His creation.  We call this general revelation.  This general revelation breaks all barriers of language or education or wealth or access to a Bible translation or anything else that can prevent understanding between God and man.

However, God can certainly also speak specifically to us through what He has created.  Just ask Moses about the burning bush or Balaam about his donkey. 

God can also just show up in creation like Jesus in the flesh or the Holy Spirit descending on Jesus like a dove when He was water baptized or those in the upper room having tongues of fire on their heads and the sound of a mighty blowing wind when the Spirit was poured out at Pentecost.  God’s creation can reveal Him quite specifically as well!

Psalm 19:1-4 (A psalm of David.)

1 The heavens declare the glory of God;

the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

2 Day after day they pour forth speech;

night after night they reveal knowledge.

3 They have no speech, they use no words;

no sound is heard from them.

4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,

their words to the ends of the world.

God’s creation reveals so much about Him that we so easily miss because it has become so common to us.  His invisible qualities are clearly revealed through His visible creation all around us.

Romans 1:20

…since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

In the beginning, God spoke and created the entire universe all around us.  He spoke and in six days created everything that we experience with our senses and even those things which we are still exploring and discovering. 

He then rested on the seventh day as a rhythm and pattern for us to follow later commanded as the Sabbath day.

We very literally depend on the word of God for our life every day.  Every single aspect of our lives are sustained by what God spoke.  God’s word upholds us.  Whether we acknowledge God’s existence or His power and authority or not, it doesn’t change the reality that we live by His word in the most literal sense.

John stated it very poetically this way:

John 1:1-3

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

God spoke and created everything with one exception – mankind.  We were literally made different from the rest of all of creation.

Genesis 1:26-27

26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

27 So God created mankind in his own image,

    in the image of God he created them;

    male and female he created them.

Genesis 2:5-7

5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the e