"Ex Nihilo"

How often do you stop and think about the creation of the world? If your like me you think about it almost weekly. It is a strange and wonderful thing. We like to think of a vast empty universe, but before creation there was not even the vast vacuum we call the universe, there was nothing when God created everything. God created the world ex nihilo, "out of nothing."

Borrowing heavily from RC Sproul's book "The Holiness of God" I will help you think about nothing, or not think about nothing. But what is nothing. can you think about it? as soon as you do, you are thinking about something. Where can we find it? Obviously nowhere. It doesn't exist, if it did then it would be something. Think about it again, you can't, because as Sproul says, nothing is not an it. We can only say nothing Isn't.

Sproul then tries to define nothing kind of comically saying,

Jonathan Edwards once said that nothing is what sleeping rocks dream about. that doesn't help much. My son offered me a better definition of nothing. When he was in junior high, i asked him when he came home from school, " What did you do today, Son?" The reply was the same everyday: "Nuthin'." So the best explanation of "nothing" is "that which my son used to do everyday in junior high."

Are you blown away by the thought of God creating this immense and awesome universe. Like a magician pulling a rabbit from a hat, except God didn't have a rabbit, or even a hat.

Modern day atheists and scientists will say that the world was created by chance. But as Dr. Sproul so rightly points out chance is not anything, it can do nothing because it is nothing. They pull the rabbit out of the hat without a rabbit, a hat, or even the magician. That is much more miraculous.

The power needed to create something out of nothing is something we cannot understand,  it transcends us, and it makes God look oh so glorious.

However, even more amazing is the fact that, "God created the world out of nothing, but He recreates us out of a corrupt mass." - Paul Washer

Prayin' For You

Lecrae- Prayin' For You

Father God, I'm prayin' to you for somebody, who knows you Lord but just hasn't, hasn't been seein' you in the right view lately, Hear me out...

Father, I'm prayin' for a friend 

he and I are pretty close, 

and out of all my friends 

for this one I'm concerned the most. 

He say he readin' daily 

but he ain't really learnin'. 

He been in church but say that he ain't moved by any sermon. 

His face weak, he ain't prayed in a week, 

he wake up and just weep with his face in the sink Lord, 

you gotta help my man, 

I'm prayin' for him daily, 

he ain't sinned but it just seem as if he goin' crazy.

He say he feelin' trapped, 

can't even head up the mall 

cuz every lady's half-dressed temptin' him to lust and fall. 

He keep the TV off, 

videos just make him feel that he ain't really nothin' without money, girls and shiny wheels. 

The other day he told me that he felt less a man 

cuz he ain't have a five-year plan 

or a piece of land 

and man it's crazy cuz his family think so much of him, 

plus he got a godly wife who always showin' love for him 

but he's strugglin', even though he talk to me, 

I tell him what to do but he don't listen when he oughta' be. 

I'm scared for him 

cuz there's people that look up to him, 

he got some younger siblings who been changed by what he's done for them 

but is it done for him, Lord don't let it be, 

if he don't wanna talk to you then Father hear from me, 

is it done for him, Lord don't let it be,

 if he don't wanna talk to you then Father hear from me...

Yeah, I'm prayin' for you, yeah, I'm prayin' for you

Yeah, I'm prayin' for you, yeah, yeah, I'm prayin' for you...

God, his condition is worsen

since we were last converse'n

and I'm with him now and he ain't doin' well

 and this I'm certain.

 He say he tryna' trust you, 

doesn't wanna disgust you 

but he was in the mist of sinners and did not discuss you 

and just today his anxiety's got the best of him, 

he knows Christ but for hours refuse to rest in Him, 

he's not the best of men 

but Lord I know he really loves you 

and I can't understand why lately he's not thinkin' of you. 

People trust this dude, 

you could crush this dude, 

Father he needs more of you 

I pray you touch this dude, 

what can I say to him? 

I'm determined to pray for him 

Father empty and brake him 

I pray you'll just have your way with him, 

cuz there's a change in him and the effects are strong, 

I pray you open up his heart before the next song 

and when he gets home, 

I pray he'll open up the sixty-six book love letter you wrote and soak it up

 cuz he ain't hearin' you 

and he ain't feelin' me 

and God I know it's killin' You 

because it's killin' me 

and matter of fact there's somethin' else he's concealin' see, 

the person that I've been prayin' about is really me.

This song by Lecrae has really stuck with me. I feel that I could pray quite a good portion of this prayer, and probably a lot of others could as well. I think this is important because it emphasizes our need for prayer, both for ourselves as well as others.


Hebrews 10:24-25 says, "And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near." We need to be lifting up our brothers and sisters in Christ, and a major way we can do that is through prayer.


Likewise prayer for ourselves is also very important. Some of us are very proud, me for one, and and prayer can undercut pride. when we depend on God for everything then what are we proud of. as 1 Cor. 4:7 says what do we have that we weren't given by God, and if we have received it then why do we boast as if it was through our working and doing.


Let's be prayerful people.