From Him, Through Him, to Him

God's great universe, all made by Him, through Him and, for Him. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1). As most anyone would readily admit, something can't come from nothing, so all that exists must come from something. God's act of creation is not even necessarily reduced to His power to overcome the Laws of Nature, through He is most surely capable. Instead, God's great essence of truth acts out of his blessed consistency to create the world out of something--but what? What else could've existed with God except God? A better question might be to ask "Who?" as another was present. In the beginning was the Word; the Living Word of God is Christ, given for us. To modify Romans 11:36 by using the Word for Jesus, for from the Word, and through the Word and to Him are all things. It is no accident that the World was created by the spoken word of God. Jesus is both the origin of all that exists in this Earth, but he is the purpose, the telos, the end which every action and thing points towards. All is for him, but all is also created by Him, through his dynamic, self-existence.

"Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!
For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became his counselor?
To Him be the glory forever. Amen."

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