If you allow yourself to think deeply and give careful consideration to our existence, it leads to the conclusion that there is a God, and He must be the God described in the Bible. Have you ever thought about existence? Not just your existence, but the existence of everything, and of the existence of anything at all. I found that most people never give it much thought. They're like little children who see every room as a playroom and they just look for toys to play with while giving no thought to what the adults in the room are doing or what they're talking about. But if human beings stop playing and look up from our toys and look around and see this great big world that we live in, we see the earth. And there are more types of life and things in nature than any one person could examine and appreciate in several lifetimes. We look up into the sky and we see more stars and actually planets and other objects that we can count, only to find out that if we look through a telescope, you find that there are billions of galaxies containing billions of stars and planets in each one. Just in our own Milky Way galaxy, there are an estimated 100 to 200 billion planets. If there's no God, then what is the explanation for existence? Why does anything exist? How did it come into being? The universe is here. Is that all that there is? And if so, how did it get here? Most scientists are materialists. They reject the idea of God. So when we say God created all things, they scoff and reject that notion. Material scientists insist that everything is the product of natural processes and not the work of a creator God. And most people are familiar with the main explanation for the existence of the universe that's put forward by these materialist and natural scientists. It's called the Big Bang Theory. There are several alternative theories to the Big Bang we're going to discuss in later devotionals, but the Big Bang is the big one. The Big Bang theory was proposed in 1927 by an astronomer in Belgium named Georges Lemaitre. That's how I pronounce his name. It's as close as I can get. But the Big Bang theory tells us that there was once a primeval atom, sometimes referred to as the cosmic egg or cosmic pea, that contained all the matter of the universe condensed to the size of a microscopic point. So small the eye cannot see it. And this primeval atom, or cosmic pea, exploded and expanded. You can find more detailed descriptions of this fictional, unproven theory of the beginning of the universe in nearly any encyclopedia or science website. But while there are many holes in the theory on technical grounds, let's just consider the possibility that it will someday be proven true, as they claim. Just for the sake of argument, set aside the many scientific reasons for rejecting the Big Bang theory for a minute. It all begins with the primeval atom, as they call it, the cosmic P. Where did that come from? Why was that here? Who or what made the primeval atom in the first place? You see, it isn't science, it's philosophy. These are thought problems. And the problem with the Big Bang is that it really doesn't answer the question, where did the universe come from? The Big Bang theory simply tells us a fairy tale about how the universe got into its present condition. It tells us the universe went from being a cosmic pea to the gargantuous thing we now see in our telescopes and space probes. The fact is, someone created everything. His name is Jesus. Colossians 1, 16, 17 says, 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. And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. You got a Big Bang Theory? Okay, where did that cosmic pea come from? They have no answers. But the Bible tells us Jesus is creator. That's not a theory. It's a fact. And every man, woman, and child is going to find out for certain very, very soon at the judgment.