God Is One

God is the Creator.

What does that mean?

First, we have to understand that by "God" I am referring to the Triune God revealed in the Bible.

This needs emphasis because, too often, there's this very bad confusion that there's just this vague Creator God who many people, of many religions, worship by different names. If all you have to go on is the glory of the stars and the beauty of sunsets, who knows? Maybe that's the case. It's unclear who made it all.

But God has revealed his name and his identity to us in the Scriptures, and so that is where we look to understand the name and the identity of the Creator.

In 1 Corinthians 8, Paul teaches that both the Father and the Son are the Creator:

"For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as there are many 'gods' and many 'lords'— yet for us there is one God, the Father. All things are from him, and we exist for him. And there is one Lord, Jesus Christ. All things are through him, and we exist through him."

We see the Spirit's involvement in Genesis 1: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters."

Or we could read from Psalm 33: "The heavens were made by the word of the LORD, and all the stars, by the breath of his mouth."

When we read these verses in light of the New Testament, we can see the Trinitarian grammar: the word, the Lord, and the breath of his mouth. Each person of the Trinity is involved in Creation.

Here's how the theologian Scott Swain explains the unity of our Trinitarian God. He says, "all of God's external works in creation, redemption, and consummation are indivisible operations of the Trinity, proceeding from the Father, through the Son, in the Spirit."

We worship one God — a Trinitarian God — who is the absolute and exclusive Creator of all things.

How could you care for God's Creation this week? For instance, you could organize a local park clean-up, plant a tree, or organize a discussion in church about environmental stewardship.