Saturday, January 7, 2023

Remember Now Thy Creator

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of His understanding. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth. Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his Maker?  Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see? The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 

The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the Maker of them all. At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. Woe unto him that striveth with his MakerAnd forgettest the Lord thy Maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth. Thus saith the Lord the Maker thereof, the Lord that formed it, to establish it; the Lord is His name; Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. 

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested, and was refreshed. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, that made heaven and earth. Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth.  

He hath made the earth by His power, He hath established the world by His wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by His understanding. Ah Lord God! behold, Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee. He hath made the earth by His power, He hath established the world by His wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion. Fear ye not Me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at My presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; The Lord of hosts is His name. 

I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto Me. Since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.

Thus saith God the Lord, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; He that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; He that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever.

I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even My hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of Thy hands. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? 

Thus saith God the Lord, He that created the heavens, and stretched them out; He that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; He that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein. The Lord that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion. O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, Thou art the God, even Thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: Thou hast made heaven and earth.  

All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was madeChrist Jesus was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. 

And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is. We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein.

For 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...God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though He needed any thing, seeing He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things. [But they] changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. 

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.  Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me.  

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air. By His spirit He hath garnished the heavens. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God. The sea is His, and He made it: and His hands formed the dry land. Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee. Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?