Don’t Shun the Creation

God is not creation. God is the eternally-existing Supreme Being, while creation is all the things he has made. In this way there are only two kinds of things: Creator and creature. To God alone belongs the category of Maker, while the rest of us—people, dogs, birds, trees, rocks, flowers, killa bees, archangels, sun, moon, and star (etc. etc. etc.)—are made. This is what we call the Creator-creature distinction.

Once we have this truth in place, let us freely go on to affirm that literally everything in creation is revelation of God. This marvelous universe talks to us about him. We can learn of his genius and power and knowledge and wisdom and goodness and justice by considering the things that he has made, and how he governs them. This is especially true of us, his image bearers. We too reveal God, which puts the call to holiness in its proper light.

Of course, the God-man Jesus Christ, who loved us and gave himself for us, reveals God most of all. He cleanses our unholiness, renews us in his own image, and will in due time usher in a brand new universe where we will enjoy God forever and sin and death shall never, ever enter. Praise the name of our glorious Creator!