All Things Bright And Beautiful

One of my friends in The International Fellowship of Christian Pipers and Drummers, a piper who lives in the Netherlands, wrote saying, “I have a question arising from one of The Church Piper music books, page xxxiii of Thanksgiving Hymns, Volume 8, where it says, “Jesus made all things bright and beautiful.”  Would you have meant God made all things bright and beautiful and did you not make an error by saying Jesus made all of these things?”

My reply was to say I appreciated his question, and agree that it could seem like I made an error, but actually, I didn’t.

The first chapter in the book of John points out that God and Jesus is one and the same Person.  Later on, when Jesus left the Holy Spirit with us, the three together, Father, Son and Holy Ghost made up the Trilogy of God.  Some have likened the Trilogy to the several states in which water can exist, namely water, ice and water vapor.  They are all of the same entity.

Scripture says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through Him all things were made.”  Additionally it says, “The Word became flesh, and made His dwelling among us, and we have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.” Jesus is referred to as The Word made flesh, and that He dwelt among people who didn’t realize He was God until He arose from the dead after having been crucified.

The Scripture tells us that Jesus is the “Word” that was there from the beginning.  Consequently, He is God.  Jesus was not only a man, but He is also God.  Who else could take upon Himself the sins of the world, die as a human sacrifice and yet have power over death, to be resurrected and prove to mankind that He has this power?  He was both God and man and He lives in us as the Holy Spirit.  He was there from the beginning and Scripture makes it clear, that “the same was in the beginning with God.  All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made."

That Jesus created all things is given in Colossians 1:15, which says, “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.  For by Him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities, all things were created by Him and for Him.”

Reading the book of John is a great enlightenment.  Moments spent reading that first chapter have been enjoyable.  Additional reading reinforces the statement that Jesus, being part of the Trilogy, was God, and He created all things bright and beautiful, just as the hymn by that title tell us.  I am thankful for the question, and am pleased to have answered it.  In "Thanksgiving Hymns" I did mean to say that Jesus is God and it is to His credit that all things bright and beautiful were made.