“Ah Lord God! behold, Thou has made the heaven and the earth by Thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee.” Just look what God did! The story is right there in the first few chapters of Genesis and many of the details are laid out. Creation is so important that, throughout Scripture, God invokes this event to describe His character – His love and provision for all life (Psalm 146:1516, Matthew 6:30-31); His faithfulness (Psalm 36:5); His mercy (Psalms 108:4, 119:64); His wisdom (Proverbs 3:19); His power (Jeremiah 10:12); and His glory (Psalm 19:1, Romans 1:21).
Let’s consider now some amazing things God has done with His crowning work of creation mankind.
Look what God did with the man that is credited with plunging all the world into sin and death. The accusation is recorded in Romans 5:12, “Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned.” When Adam confessed his sin, God forgave him and gave him instructions for his future life. This man went on to father a son, Abel, whom Adam brought “up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” That son became the first martyr for his faith, love and obedience to Almighty God. Graciously, God provided Adam another son, Seth, appointed in Abel’s stead through whose lineage would come the Savior of the world.
Next, let’s look at what God did with a man named Enoch. His story is found in Genesis 5 and we read in Verses 23 and 24, “And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and five years. And Enoch walked with God and he was not; for God took him.” God took Enoch to Heaven, but not before he fathered Methuselah whose grandson, Noah, lived in a time when “the wickedness of man (mankind) was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually,” (Genesis 6:5). But “Noah was a just man… and walked with God,” (Verse 9). God used Noah to build an ark saving a remnant of civilization when a flood destroy a wicked world. Enoch’s spiritual influence so spanned generations that his great-grandson also walked with God, and his influence sets our heart ablaze today with a desire to walk with God.
As we move to the New Testament, just look at what God did with a man named Saul whose life goal was to destroy the church of Jesus Christ. One day he was brought to his knees as he traveled the road to the city of Damascus where he had planned to arrest Christians. There on his knees, he surrendered his life to the Lord Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul spent the rest of his life spreading the Gospel throughout the world, and that Gospel has reached the shores of the United States of America. Praise the Lord!
Let’s focus now on the world news of the last two weeks. Look what God did with a young boy in the Chicago area who accepted Christ as his personal Savior and Lord when he was in the fifth grade! God put a fire in the heart of Charlie Kirk to reach his generation with the Gospel. Charlie Kirk performed that calling with his whole being until September 10, 2025, when he died a martyr for Christ. His life and his death moved and changed the world for God. May that moving continue, just as the Apostle Paul’s influence has continued, until Christ returns.
Finally, look what God did with His Son. He sent Him from glory to a sin-ravaged world to live about 33 years, endure unspeakable suffering, die the most cruel death on the cross and arise from the dead to provide eternal life for you and me.
What will our legacy be when our last day on earth has ended? Will anyone be able to look at our lives and say, “Look what God did!?”
— Randy Zinn is pastor of Russell Missionary Baptist Church, Russell, Ark.; formerly of Okmulgee.
