John 1:3 (ESV)

All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.

This is an amazing statement of fact. We often think of Creation and/or the Genesis account of it with only two players in mind: God doing most of the work and the Holy Spirit (“Spirit of God” Gen. 1:2) playing a role, as well. Even in verse 26, where God uses the term “us,” it does not explicitly mention His Son, yet we know that Jesus was there according to today’s verse and other places throughout Scripture, as well. Jesus, our personal Lord and Savior; the baby in the manger; the gentle carpenter from Nazareth; the comforter of the downcast; the loving healer of the sick; the patient teacher of his disciples; the suffering servant; the one through whom ALL THINGS were made.

Wow.

Of this startling fact Spurgeon wrote, “He that hung upon the cross was the Maker of all worlds. He that came as an infant, for our sake, was the Infinite. How low he stooped! How high he must have been that he could stoop so low!” Somehow, through Christ, God flung the entire universe into existence. All 70 sextillion stars that we have calculated to exist have His fingerprint on them. Every human body has approximately 150 trillion gigabytes of data within it (580 billion iPhones) and Jesus somehow programmed them all. In his “earthen toybox” we find flowers and birds and cheetahs and blue whales and kittens and puppies and weeping willow trees and the aurora borealis, too. I could do this all day every day and still not find my way to the bottom of His creations…

That is who chose to die for you.

The Apostle Paul, in grappling with the majestic reality of the Gospel, wrote that, “None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, ‘What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him’—” When we get to Heaven we will begin to understand just how amazing and all-encompassing John 1:3 really is. At this point, we simply lack the ability to do so, for “we see through the glass dimly…but one day, face to face” (1 Cor. 13:12a). Oh, what a glorious day that will be…but in the meantime, take the time to grasp for it by remembering that He that made everything also made time to come after you.