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March 2000 Table of Contents
Off The Top Of My Head
"And GOD Said..."
By Jerry Evans
"I went over to a friend's house so he could show me his new toy. (I'm a big believer in the adage that says, "the only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys") He had purchased one of these new programs for his computer where he speaks into a microphone and the words are typed on the screen for him. Now this seems like the ultimate in laziness to me mainly because I don't have one. It was amazing. He just talked and this thing typed it out. It made a few mistakes but they were easily corrected. Now this impressed me until I remembered that while I can't type very fast, I can type faster than I can think of what to say.
This whole event caused me to start thinking about a picture I saw some time. The picture showed God's hands molding what appeared to be a world out of mud. It seemed like a pretty nice picture to me until one day it struck me that that's not what happened. In the first Chapter of Genesis God gives us His account of creation and in that chapter he says about nine times that "God said." "Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." "Genesis 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." And on and on… you get the picture.
Now all this time we have been trying to help God with a way that He could have made this sphere we live on because our finite minds just wouldn't accept the fact that all He had to do was speak. As I watched this demonstration of a computer program it made me wonder was God letting us see in some small way that if man could make a gadget that would type when he speaks, then certainly almighty God could speak and make a ball.
With this whole thing on my mind I decided to look a little further and came up real quick that John 1:1 says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." It goes on to say "The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." He refers to Himself as "The Word."
If all this is true, and it surely is then the old saying that "when God speaks, things happen" brings to question why we aren't hearing Him speak more often? I noticed that in Genesis when He spoke there seemed to be always something listening. "Let there be light" the light was listening. He only had to say it once.
He's still speaking and when He is heard wonderful things happen. Our job now is to become like the light and the water and the firmament and when He speaks, respond. The problem, like my friend's computer program, is to make sure we hear the right voice.
To cap all this off I was walking down the street the other day and saw a kid coming toward me with a T-shirt on that had "I believe in the Big Bang Theory" on the front. As he passed I looked at the back of the shirt and it said "God spoke and BANG it happened." Always has, always will.
Jerry
Email Jerry:Jerry.Evans@jjonline.com
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