God Directly Sustains all of Nature

“For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”

Colossians 1:16,17

The law of gravity, radio waves, and electromagnetic fields are examples of some of these invisible things God created. The laws of physics do not hold the universe together on their own, God created them and He is behind them, holding everything together personally. This does not mean science or the world/universe is God (this would be pantheism which I do not believe the Bible or the evidence from the world around us supports). God creates and holds up all things, including his scientific laws which He uses to govern the physical universe.

In these laws we can see the genius and divine nature of God (Romans 1:20, Proverbs 3:19,20).

Solomon in the book of Proverbs tells us “By wisdom the LORD laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place.” “By His knowledge the watery depths were broken up and the clouds dripped dew.” (Proverbs 3:19-20) David tells us in the Psalms that by His understanding He made the heavens (Psalm 136:5), Again in Jeremiah 10:12 we read that He stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

What do we see in the scientific world around us? Order and genius. The world isn’t chaos. It consists of elements and life-cycles and systems that make sense, that work in a practical way, and that have logic and design. It can be studied. It’s processes can be understood. Experiments can be repeated to be proved true. We obtain knowledge by studying the sciences.

The world is an epicenter of different kinds of energy sources that can be mined and utilized by human beings. God created this world to be inhabited (Isaiah 49:18) and its resources to be harnessed and utilized by human beings. It’s a workable, usable world of scientific genius.

Scientific laws point us to God and give us an understanding of His divinity and also His character and what He is like as a person. For instance, they work the same for anyone and everyone who uses them and are unbiased and show no favoritism, and reward anyone who uses them correctly, just as God Himself loves all equally, and deals with us according to principles of right and goodness, and has no favorites. The perfect consistency of these laws allows us to do experiments and find scientific truth, and mirrors/testifies of the consistency found in God’s character. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and is always moral perfection and absolute goodness.

The same is true for life, that nothing that is alive self-sustains its own life. “In Him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). Parents don’t give life to their children (Psalm 139:13); it’s God who forms us in the womb and breathes the breath of life into us, and who moment-by-moment infuses us with life each and every day (Acts 17:25). There is no life apart from Him. He is “the Life” (John 14:6)

God calls Himself the “I Am” (John 8:58). “I Am” means that God has always been, He’s eternal and immortal, and that He’s the only being that self-sustains. No other living being can sustain it’s own life or derive life from itself. He holds us up and keeps us alive moment-by-moment.