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God the Creator – Part 4
C.S. Lewis said that the miracles Jesus did are instances on a small scale of what God is
doing on a large scale. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth from nothing. In the Gospels the Son of God creates fulfillment from next to nothing.
Jesus didn’t merely satisfy the physical hunger of the 5000. After they were fed, they
said, “This is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world!” That’s close, but not accurate. But we cannot really blame the Jews for saying that. They knew something miraculous, something from God had just happened. They didn’t have a category for Son of God, or God Incarnate. Jesus said and did things that to their understanding were things a prophet said and did. But they knew that a prophet was from God and spoke for God and did miraculous things.
And when they were fed by Jesus they knew it was a godly thing. Certainly, they didn’t forget this. When Jesus died and was resurrected, the Christian faith grew so rapidly partly because there were so many people around who remembered what Jesus did for them. When Jesus taught and preached and healed and miraculously fed the multitudes, He was also at work creating His church.
We can be like these 5000 people. They came seeking Jesus. They believed in Him. He
was able to feed them because they were hungry for what He could give them. Maybe some were even empty. When we empty ourselves, Jesus can work miracles in us and fill us up to overflowing out of His great bounty.
God is about creation. When we come to Him we are fed. And He begins to create
within us a place for Himself to dwell. And He begins to create us anew in His image. In 2nd
Corinthians we’re told, “if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away, see, everything has become new! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ”.
God can create the universe from nothing. He can create a Nation from an old man
whose wife is barren. He can feed 5000 people with next to nothing. He can create His Church with a handful of men. And He can create you to be His child forever. Jesus said, “In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.” He’s still creating. He’s creating a place for you and me in Heaven. And He’s creating us to belong there. God creates. That’s who God is, that is what He has done, and that is what He is doing. Amen.
Blessings In Jesus,
Fr. David