The One Who Began the Clock Ticking
If you have been reading the earlier blogs, you may remember our reflections on the Fibonacci sequence—the remarkable mathematical patterns found throughout nature, from flowers and pinecones to the spirals of a pineapple.
You may also have encountered the Anthropic Principle: the observation that the universe appears to possess an extraordinarily precise set of conditions that allow life to exist at all. Then there is the moral law, that persistent sense that some things are genuinely right or wrong, regardless of what we might personally prefer. Try it out the next time you skip the queue in the supermarket.
Taken together, these things raise an intriguing reality: perhaps we are more than a chance collection of molecules, pirouetting obediently to our DNA. Behind the mathematics, the finely balanced universe and our strange awareness of good and evil lies something deeper.
And that brings us to the larger question: Who is the Designer?
In Exodus 3:14, God makes one of the most astonishing statements in Scripture:
God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.”
There is something breath-taking in those few words. God does not define Himself by reference to anything else. Everything else has existence; God simply is. It is a small but extraordinary doorway into the Christian understanding of God as the ground and source of all being.
The same thought appears in the opening words of Genesis:
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” — Genesis 1:1
Before matter, before human history, before the first ticking of any cosmic clock—God. The Bible begins without attempting to explain God's origin because creation has a beginning; the Creator does not.
Yet Scripture takes us somewhere even more remarkable. David looks into the vastness of the heavens and asks:
“What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?” — Psalm 8:4
This question gets me every time. David looks into that immense night sky and encounters a beautiful paradox. Against the scale of the universe, we appear almost unimaginably small, and yet we are told that we matter profoundly to God.
Christianity does not ask us to pretend that humanity is physically impressive beside galaxies and stars. It makes the far stranger claim that we are personally significant to their Creator.
David could scarcely get his head around it. I am not sure we can either.
And this takes us back to yesterday's blog, where I invited you to do something wonderfully simple: come and sit with the Creator.
Ask for knowledge. Ask for guidance. Ask for wisdom. Bring Him the questions that trouble you and the questions you are almost afraid to ask. Come sincerely, humbly and with deep respect.
Then listen.
For if the God who set the universe in motion is also the God who is mindful of you, it is conceivable that the greatest discovery is not simply that there may be a Designer behind creation.
It is that the Designer may want you to know Him.
Note: Scripture quotations: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), Public Domain.