Lord’s Day, Vol. 6 No. 16

Where Did God Come From?

There are many wonderful things about God that we cannot understand. We have learned that God can be everywhere at the same time. How strange this seems; we cannot understand how that can be at all! God has not explained this to us. When we get to Heaven, He will tell us all about it, and then we will know.

There is something else about God that we cannot understand. To tell you what this other thing is, I am going to ask you a question. Where did God come from? Did He have a father or a mother? No, God did not need a father and mother. He was never born. He was never a little child in Heaven who grew up. He was not born in Heaven because He has always been alive. He has always been great and wonderful, just exactly the same as He is now. He has always been alive.

God was alive yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that. He was alive before you were born and before Mother and Daddy were born. He was alive before Grandfather was born and before there were any rocks and trees and grass and animals.

Who made God? No one did. God was not made by anyone. God has always been alive. We cannot understand this, but we know that it is true.

If We Cannot See God, How Can we Know He is Alive?

Who can see the wind? Neither you nor I! But we don’t need to see the wind to know that it is there. We know it is, because we can feel it against our faces and see the trees and grass moving when the wind blows. But we cannot see the wind. We cannot see God either. But we can know He is and lives by the things He does. Some people say, “If I see God, then I will believe He is and lives; if I can’t see Him, I won’t believe in Him.”

But that isn’t fair. Those people believe is real when they can’t see it, because of what it does. They can also know that God is there because of what He does.

Can you think of some of these things that God does that make us know He is alive?

Well, for one thing, we can see the stars and the sun and moon.

Did these just get in the sky by themselves? No, Someone put them there. When we see a house, we do not think it grew there by itself. We know someone built it. When we see the stars, we know they didn’t just happen to be there either. Someone put them there. God made them.

Do you know why we cannot see God? It is because God does not want us to see Him yet. God is so great and so wonderful and so bright that if we saw Him, it would kill us. Some day, if we obey God, He will take us to Heaven when we die, and then we can see God as He is. That will make us very happy.

Even though we cannot see God we can love Him very much. The Bible tells us about God. It tells us how much He loves us and how good He is. We do not need to see God to love Him. A mother had been talking to her little girl about loving God. The little girl said, “Mother, I cannot see God and how can I love Him unless I do?”

A few days later the little girl received a package in the mail from a friend whom she had never seen. In the package was a present. The little girl opened the package very carefully and inside she found a beautiful picture book. She looked at the book for a long time and then ran over to her mother and said, “Oh, Mother, I love this book and I love the lady who sent it to me!”

“But you have never seen her,” said the little girl’s mother. “No,” said the little girl, “but I love her because she sent me this present.”

That is the way we can love God even though we have not seen Him. He has given us so many wonderful things such as our homes and our fathers and mothers that we can thank Him and love Him, even though we have not seen Him yet.

Prayer: O Thou Almighty God, we thank Thee that the Heavens declare Thy Glory, and the sun and the moon and the stars, which Thou hast made, show us how great Thou art. We thank Thee, too, for the Lord Jesus who has shown us Thy great love by dying on the cross for our sins and rising victorious the third day. In Jesus’ name. Amen. [Extracted and edited from Devotions for the Children’s Hour by Kenneth N. Taylor.]

Yours lovingly,

Pastor Lek Aik Wee