The God of Nothing Rex Deckard, Pastor Calvary Apostolic Church Ecclesiates 3:14I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.

For with God nothing shall be impossible. For with God nothing shall be impossible. Luke 1:37

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These Scripture verses reveal to us several significant things about our relationship to God. First, God is eternal. He was around with nothing for a long time before man every came into being. He knows a lot about what nothing is!

“creatio ex hilio “ When He created the world, He created it from nothing because nothing was what He had to work with. It only took His Word and His Spirit to make a universe “creatio ex hilio “

If we have His Word and His Spirit, we have as much as existed when the entire universe was created!

But when God got ready to create man, He made Him out of the dust of the Earth. God became the original potter and we became His first work of art

What becomes of the clay has as much to do with the clay, as with the potter that forms it. The clay has to allow itself to be formed into a vessel. It has to want to be turned from nothing into something!

Judas Iscariot was only 51 days from having his name forever chiseled into the foundations of the New Jerusalem. 1,224 more hours on the wheel and he would have made it. Instead, he was cast out to the potter’s field.

As long as the clay doesn’t harden, the potter can work until nothing becomes something that is beautiful

Second, God is aware of everything. No thing happens in our life that God is not aware of. And things happen because we are part of the natural world as well as the spiritual.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

The Bible teaches that God understands where we are. No thing happens that God is not aware of.

1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

In other words, there are things that happen to us because we are human Birth Death Relationships Sickness Work Hunger Weariness Frustration Anger

Romans 8: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Third, It reveals that the things that are most important are the things things that are eternal, not temporal

Notice our key verse in Ecclesiastes three: 14I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. 15That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

2 Corinthians 4:17-18 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

We have a tendency to interpret everything in life in terms of the immediate- the “right now” We have a tendency to interpret everything in life in terms of the immediate- the “right now” God looks at the big picture that is hard for us to see

Isaiah 55:8-9 8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

God thinks in terms of eternity, while we think in terms of the here and now It’s because God thinks in terms of eternity, while we think in terms of the here and now

Hebrews 12:11 11Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. The word “afterward” comes from the Greek ‘husteron,’ meaning eventually.

Finally, with God, it is impossible for nothing to happen. When He’s around, something always happens.

Whenever Jesus came around, something ALWAYS happened!

When you are down to nothing, God is up to something!