What matters most is what God loves. We are made in His image and when we know what matters most to Him, we know what matters most to us. We find out what God loves in his word – which he had written down for us because God loves to be known.
God shows us through creation in the book of Genesis that he loves beauty and majesty.
From the whole universe down to the Garden of Eden and to us – he displayed his love for the magnificent and the beautiful; Glorious creations, reflecting the glory of God.
By his calculations of the universe, we see that God loves order, plans, and perfection.
In Stephen Hawking’s book, A Brief History of Time, he observed “The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order…” and “If the rate of expansion at one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by one in one hundred thousand million, gravity would have caused the universe to have re-collapsed on itself. If it had had been faster by that same amount, the universe would have expanded into nothing by now.” http://www.fisica.net/relatividade/stephen_hawking_a_brief_history_of_time.pdf
Psalms 139:16 You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
God loves to create meaning around him and in our lives.
He love symbolism and metaphors and loves to give us glimpses of what will happen before it happens – to create meaning for us. This is what God did in the Old Testament (OT) many times. For example, when we see that God delivered his people from captivity in Egypt and brought them into the Promised Land, this shows us that God will deliver us from this earth, our captivity, and bring us into our promised land, Heaven. By the Tabernacle and sacrifice system in the OT he gave us hints at how he was going to free us from sin and forgive us. Through his prophets in the OT he pointed to Jesus. In the New Testament (NT), he showed us himself through Jesus and told us how the world will end and what heaven will be like. He told us things before they happen to create meaning for our lives and for the things we do.
God loves music, melody, and worship.
Throughout the Bible, displays of worship songs, instruments playing, angels singing, and people dancing are recorded. A trumpet will even be the signal of Christ’s return.
Some in the scientific community believe that everything in existence, at it’s core, is music…“according to [String Theory], all reality at its core is not made up of quarks, photons, and electrons but of far smaller vibrating strings of energy. Just as different vibrations— frequencies— cause different sounds, it is the different vibrations— tunings or pitch— of the tiny strings that cause all the various aspects of reality: in one instance a solid, in another a liquid, and so on.” Hicks, Mark (2014-01-27). Surprise: The Union of Quantum Physics, Relativity, and the Bible (Kindle Locations 2789-2798). Kindle Edition.
“In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God’s creation . . . as music” -Roy H. Williams
“For the first time in the history of physics we therefore have a framework with the capacity to explain every fundamental feature upon which the universe is constructed. For this reason string theory is sometimes described as possibly being the ‘theory of everything’.” Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and a leading string theorist. Author of The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory.
God lists hundreds of other things he loves in his word. These are just a few. But the most important of all the things God loves for us to know – is that God loves us. Why does God love us? Because he does. Because he IS love. We don’t know why. It doesn’t really make sense to us – does it? The good news is that what matters most is not what we know or what we understand or what we do or who we are – but what matters most is who God is and what he loves. What God loves matters most.
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Ecclesiastes 3:11 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.
Psalms 50:2 From Mount Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines in glorious radiance.
By his calculations of the universe, we see that God loves order, plans, and perfection.
In Stephen Hawking’s book, A Brief History of Time, he observed “The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order…” and “If the rate of expansion at one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by one in one hundred thousand million, gravity would have caused the universe to have re-collapsed on itself. If it had had been faster by that same amount, the universe would have expanded into nothing by now.” http://www.fisica.net/relatividade/stephen_hawking_a_brief_history_of_time.pdf
“The laws of physics, as we understand them today, tell us that the energy in the early universe should have produced an equal amount of matter and anti-matter. Anti-matter is interesting stuff. When anti-matter touches matter, a pinch produces an explosion larger than a nuclear weapon. This means that all the matter and anti-matter produced by the Big Bang should have annihilated everything in existence a long time ago. However, for some unexplainable reason, for every billion particles of antimatter, the Big Bang produced one billion and one particles of matter. This turned out to be an extremely fortunate turn of events, because that extra matter was just enough to produce you, me, and all the other stuff in the universe. Why or how this could have happened is anybody’s guess.” Hicks, Mark (2014-01-27). Surprise: The Union of Quantum Physics, Relativity, and the Bible (Kindle Locations 2749-2755). . Kindle Edition.Exactness. Perfection. God creates and moves with perfect precision. He is not a God of randomness or coincidence. God makes everything happen with perfect calculations. God created his people with the same love of majesty, beauty, perfection, and purpose – no accidents, no randomness. Our lives are planned with those same perfect calculations – and written in a book before we’re born.
Psalms 139:16 You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
God loves to create meaning around him and in our lives.
He love symbolism and metaphors and loves to give us glimpses of what will happen before it happens – to create meaning for us. This is what God did in the Old Testament (OT) many times. For example, when we see that God delivered his people from captivity in Egypt and brought them into the Promised Land, this shows us that God will deliver us from this earth, our captivity, and bring us into our promised land, Heaven. By the Tabernacle and sacrifice system in the OT he gave us hints at how he was going to free us from sin and forgive us. Through his prophets in the OT he pointed to Jesus. In the New Testament (NT), he showed us himself through Jesus and told us how the world will end and what heaven will be like. He told us things before they happen to create meaning for our lives and for the things we do.
2 Corinthians 2:14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.
Revelation 21:1-5 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
God loves music, melody, and worship.
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1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
Psalm 150:1-6 Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
Some in the scientific community believe that everything in existence, at it’s core, is music…“according to [String Theory], all reality at its core is not made up of quarks, photons, and electrons but of far smaller vibrating strings of energy. Just as different vibrations— frequencies— cause different sounds, it is the different vibrations— tunings or pitch— of the tiny strings that cause all the various aspects of reality: in one instance a solid, in another a liquid, and so on.” Hicks, Mark (2014-01-27). Surprise: The Union of Quantum Physics, Relativity, and the Bible (Kindle Locations 2789-2798). Kindle Edition.
“In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God’s creation . . . as music” -Roy H. Williams
“For the first time in the history of physics we therefore have a framework with the capacity to explain every fundamental feature upon which the universe is constructed. For this reason string theory is sometimes described as possibly being the ‘theory of everything’.” Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University and a leading string theorist. Author of The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory.
God lists hundreds of other things he loves in his word. These are just a few. But the most important of all the things God loves for us to know – is that God loves us. Why does God love us? Because he does. Because he IS love. We don’t know why. It doesn’t really make sense to us – does it? The good news is that what matters most is not what we know or what we understand or what we do or who we are – but what matters most is who God is and what he loves. What God loves matters most.
Jeremiah 31:3 The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying:“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.”
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Job 37:5 God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.
- Tara Goddard
