God still creates in us

By Lawrence Mduduzi Ndlovu

The Christian community has always upheld that God created all things. This notion is affirmed in the creation stories. All which God has created is good.  This can be understood to mean that we too, created by God, have an innate capacity for goodness, and it is for the purpose of doing good that we have been created.

The creation process did not end there. I dare to say that God is still creating, to this day. Creation did not end with one single event; what God did was to ignite one long process of creation.  

Some might minimise this concept by suggesting that, indeed, God still creates because new babies are born all the time and sapling trees sprout and so on. Of course, that is true, yet limited, because God still creates even in those that already have been created. God is still creating in us.

In his last public lecture of 2009, Professor Thomas Jacobs alluded to the fact that even though scientifically it seems the human species has reached its maximum state of growth in terms of physical growth, in ability the human species is continuously outshining itself; that’s why world records in athletics are constantly broken. Can we then suggest that God is still creating in us ways for us to be better people?

But if God is still creating in us, then our knowledge of God ought to be growing as well. Instead there is a growing tendency of ignorance of God and of the values and a moral code which epitomise God. Our knowledge of God must therefore grow; a life which is not an attestation to this is a downright contradiction.

If a divine being can create in us then it follows that the Creator is far greater than the created. The entire existence of the created depends on God the Creator. “In Him we live and move and have our being” (Acts, 17:28).

Our battle for morality has not been won. We are fighting a war of ideologies, a battle in the sky, because we have not yet started witnessing with our own lives. Ours therefore is a call for us to be living proof for the existence of God. May they indeed know we are Christians by our love.

This working of God in our lives should transcend the spiritual boundaries; it should be seen by those with whom we share our space and time. The agenda of God therefore, should be put into action by us, the organs and parts, of the single body of Christ.

From here onwards we should take up a new agenda for change. This era of our living should mark an end to the silence when our voices are most needed. No more complacency, we should be burning with a zeal for justice and peace.

Above all we should never allow ourselves as a people and a nation to succumb to poor or second-grade leadership, be it political or religious. God, who continues to make us better at what we do, does this to aid us in this ever changing cosmos.

Lawrence Mduduzi Ndlovu is a philosophy student at St John Vianney Seminary, Pretoria.