January 8

For by Him were all things created.—Colossians 1:16.

CREATION in all the wisdom, power, and goodness involved in it, belongs to Christ. The worlds were made by the Son of God. All things, from the most minute to the most sublime, were made by him, and without him, was not any thing made that was made. Not only did he chase away the chaotic gloom from this our world, and cause light, life, and harmony to be manifest; but the higher worlds, with all their illustrious orders of inhabitants, “whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things were created by him and for him.” It was Christ’s almighty voice that brought into being the Sun with all the lights of the Solar System. By his voice the channels of the sea were formed, and the waters of the ocean were gathered together His hand stretched out the heavens as a curtain, and his voice gave to universal nature, her fixed primary laws. Christ’s creating energy extends to all creatures and all worlds. Wherever there is matter, animate, or inanimate, wherever there is mind, distinct from, or united to material form; existence in all its unnumbered varied forms, is the production of Christ. “One Almighty energetic Being produced all things, and that Being, was Christ, (Hebrews 1:2.

Ep. iii. 9. John 1:1.) How glorious is the Lord Jesus in his works. Infinitely happy in himself, yet moved by his own unbounded goodness, he employed his illustrious perfections in forming creatures to reflect his image, and to participate of his exhaustless felicity. Hence every creating act made way, for the outgoings of his bounty, and the communications of his love.

"The word, the uncreated son, When finite things began to be Existing, God with God alone, Thou wast from all eternity! There in thy Father's bosom laid, Ineffably, the joy of him, Thou wast before the worlds were made, God, independent and supreme."