ONE ANT TO ANOTHER

DON’T LOOK NOW, BUT THERE IS SOMETHING OUT THERE LOOKING AT US.

Let me tell you the great news a lone ant carried back to the ant colony following his escape to the real world outside, and then he somehow made his way back in again. He had great news. “There is a great, wonderful, world out there. It has huge colonies of other ants of all kinds and colors. You can not imagine it!” That could be us. We could be that ant. There is a great, wonderful, world out there beyond our galaxy, a place that we can never understand or describe! To most of the world, it is a well kept secret, though it shouldn’t be. How could it be? How did it come about? The world asks those very questions. What is out there? Well, you and I know in part. We know because we have been told how it came about. We know the maker of it all.

We know Jesus. We can even quote one of the scriptures that tells us of his part in creating it. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.” John, the apostle who was closest to Jesus told us these facts in the first three verses of his gospel account. Paul in Colossians also wrote, “By him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things and by him all things consist.” Colossians 1:16,17.

But, let us go back a few thousand years, as we measure time, to the first verse of Genesis. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.“ How can it say, “in the beginning” when he existed before then? Simple, there was no such thing as time, for months, days, and years all came about as part of the creation.

I recently saw a picture taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the Helix Nebula that looked shockingly like a gigantic eye peering back at the camera! Of course it was something else, not an eye at all. Still it's resemblance gained it the name "Eye of God." But there IS something out there. That something is intensely interested in all that happens here. We are like the ant in the ant colony, the galaxy of which we are but a tiny speck is like that colony. That something is God, without beginning, and without end, so powerful that he spoke, “And God said,” and all that we know and see about us came into being. God wanted us to know that, so He saw to it that Moses wrote of it the book of, beginnings, Genesis. He also wants us to know about Heaven, Hell, and the ending of this “ant colony” we call our galaxy. There is a whole world out there, one that will never end, a world grand beyond our ability to visualize it, one where His family will be blessed to go to, because all that is evil will have been separated and sent to the place especially prepared for Satan and his fallen angels. There are glimpses of this place in the accounts of the rich man and Lazarus, portions of the book of Revelation 21 and 22, and numerous other scattered scripture references. There is no reason to wonder; his creation speaks loudly, “Look at me and see God’s handwork.” We only have to open our eyes and our minds to see.