Stand Fast

Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Stand fast by the word of the Lord, where the heavens made and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. Psalm 33:6 and 9. Many is the modern-day evangelical who has attempted to harmonize the plain sense of the Scriptures with Big Bang cosmogony, concepts of stellar evolution, and a uniformitarian framework for Earth history.

This exercise seldom results in tempering of secular thought, but rather results in a compromising reinterpretation of Scripture, making it say something it clearly does not say. The Bible says that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. All things that now exist were simply called into existence at God's spoken command. Creation was a true miracle; it was not merely a godly oversight of cosmic processes acting on eternal matter, nor was it the gradual appearance and disappearance of matter in a steady. State transformation.

Only a poor regard for Scripture, coupled with an overly high regard for current astronomical theory, could interpret Hebrews eleven three as the explosion of a tiny super dense cosmic egg, itself the result of a supposed quantum fluctuation in a vacuum in a Big Bang that produced the entire universe. Rather, as implied in the formula. Let there be, and there was, repeated many times in Genesis one, and as described in our text and elsewhere. All things derive simply from his spoken word. Our response should not be to disbelieve or twist, but to believe and praise.

Let the earth fear the Lord. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. Psalm thirty-three, eight. If you've enjoyed today's devotional, be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, and please rate and review so more listeners can find us. To Support ICR's ministry.

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