What God Does

I saw a video recently: Louie Giglio presenting a sermon about God holding us together. I've linked the short version (<6 minutes), but you can find the 40 minute version as well. The whole talk presents us with the fact that God will hold on to us no matter what circumstances we face. He created the universe, and He created you and me. He'll never let go.

But as I watched this clip, what struck me is the timing.

God is outside of space and time.

~ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Genesis 1:1

~ He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11

~ Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord—with the first of them and with the last—I am he. Isaiah 41:4

~ I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Revelation 22:13

God accomplished great things before we were even born.

~ “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5

~ For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. Ephesians 1:4

~ For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

Before any scientist knew what cells were, before Leeuwenhoek improved the microscope, and before microbiologists studied cell structures, God created something called laminin, the protein molecule that holds out cells together.

Yes, if you google laminin and look at images, you'll be amazed.

But what is amazing to me in this moment is that God did that before the beginning of time. He knew our doubts and questions in the twenty-first century and our search for truth. He knew that one day we'd have the ability to see it. He didn't wait for us to wonder and ask and then slap His forehead because He hadn't thought of that.

He created us and then He waited.

Even as He waits for us to acknowledge Him and worship Him and love Him, He is sustaining everything, and it just so happens He sustains our bodies with something called laminin.

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-8

What God does....He does before the beginning of the world. His timing is perfect.