9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. 10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof (Psalm 65:9-10).
The Creation is sustained through the sovereign will of God. God cares for His creation. The Creation is His work. It is part of God’s nature to create. It is therefore also a part of God’s nature to sustain the Creation. It is pure fallacy to hold that the Creation is self-sustaining. In order for the Creation to be self-sustaining, it would either have to always have existed or it would have to have created itself. Either way, the Creation would have to have the capacity to design and to be purposeful without intervention. But we know from experience that this is not possible. All things in Creation decay over time, and such processes as the law of entropy necessitate that a sustainer intervene to bring order out of chaos. It is only God who is self-existent; He existed outside of time because He is the creator of time. Since God is the self-existent Creator, He is also the sovereign sustainer of the Creation.
The Creation is sustained through the sovereign will of God. God cares for His creation. The Creation is His work. It is part of God’s nature to create. It is therefore also a part of God’s nature to sustain the Creation. It is pure fallacy to hold that the Creation is self-sustaining. In order for the Creation to be self-sustaining, it would either have to always have existed or it would have to have created itself. Either way, the Creation would have to have the capacity to design and to be purposeful without intervention. But we know from experience that this is not possible. All things in Creation decay over time, and such processes as the law of entropy necessitate that a sustainer intervene to bring order out of chaos. It is only God who is self-existent; He existed outside of time because He is the creator of time. Since God is the self-existent Creator, He is also the sovereign sustainer of the Creation.
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