Where the World Came From

Make yourselves comfortable, for we are going on a long journey. We are going back thousands of years, before the first man had been made; farther still, before the first animal had been made. The earth was then covered with forests. Not a bird twittered, not a fly buzzed. There was no noise but the noise of thunder and rushing water, the noise of wind and tumbling rocks. Farther still, when not a tree, not a bush, not a blade of grass had started. Farther still, before the earth or the moon or the sun or the stars or anything else had been made. There was not even any air. There was not even anything to make things out of. Then how did the sun and the moon and the earth ever get here?

Joe looks hungry. Suppose that when he goes home he sits on the floor in front of the oven and waits for a nice chocolate cake to come out. You tell him not to waste his time, for the oven is empty. But Joe says he does not care, he is going to wait anyway until the cake comes. How long do you think he will have to wait for a cake to come out of the oven, unless some one puts a cake in the oven? So, too, when would the earth have got here if no one had put it here? Never. But the earth is here for you and I are on it, so some one must have made it and made it out of nothing too.

Who is powerful enough to make something out of nothing? Who is great enough to make this big earth? Who could make this earth without anything to stand on? The wonderful Being who did all this we call GOD. He is the only one who can make things out of nothing. He made the sun and moon and earth and stars and all things. He has only to wish for a thing to be and it is. There is nothing He can not do.

God needs nothing to stand on, for He has no body. He is a spirit. He is everywhere at the same time. He sees us every moment of the day and night. He sees everything we do and we cannot hide from Him, not even if we could bury ourselves in the middle of the earth.

No one made God. He was never born. He never started. He always lived and will live forever. He will never die. He made you and me, and best of all, He loves you and me more than our own mother does. He is always thinking about us and waiting for the day when He will take us to Heaven where He will give us everything we want.

Every time we do anything wrong, it hurts Him very much, and if we could see how kindly He is looking at us, we would never do anything to make Him feel bad.

He is right here with us now and always and yet we can not see Him because He has no body; but in Heaven we shall see Him face to face, for then we shall be able to see spirits.

There is only one God, but He is three persons. The first person is the Father, the second person is the Son, the third person is the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost.

The Father is the whole of God, the Son is the whole of God, the Holy Ghost is the whole of God. Each person is a different person from the others, but each person is the same God as the others. We cannot understand how one God is three persons, or how the three persons are the same God and so we call it a mystery. The mystery of the Blessed Trinity means one God in three divine persons.

Once two little boys were playing. Their names were Arthur and James. Arthur was coaxing James to do something wrong, and James was just going to give in when he looked up and saw his mother watching from the window. Then he whispered: “I can’t, Arthur. My mother is looking at me.”

So, too, when any one coaxes you to do anything wrong, look up a moment and say to yourself: “I can’t. God is looking at me.”