Good Tidings from Heaven

WHO MADE IT?

Sir Isaac Newton had a friend who, like himself, was a great scientist; but he was an infidel. Newton was a devout believer in God and had trusted Christ as his Saviour. The two men often “locked horns” over this question, though their mutual interest in science drew them much together.

Newton had a skilled mechanic make him a replica of our solar system in miniature. In the centre was a large gilded ball representing the sun. Revolving around this central ball were smaller balls fixed on the arms of varying length. They represented Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, in their proper order. These balls were so geared together by cogs and bolts as to move in perfect harmony by turning a crank.

One day as Newton sat reading in his study with the mechanism on a large table near him, his infidel friend stepped in. He was scientist enough to recognize at a glance what was before him. Stepping up to it he slowly turned the crank. With undisguised admiration he watched the heavenly bodies all move at their relative speeds in their orbits. Standing off a few feet, he exclaimed: “My! What an exquisite thing this is! Who made it?”

Without looking up from his book, Newton answered, “Nobody!”

Quickly turning to Newton the infidel said: “Evidently you did not understand my question. I asked who made this thing?”

Looking up now, Newton solemnly assured him that nobody made it, but that the aggregation of matter so much admired had just happened to assume the form it was in. At this the astonished infidel replied with some heat: “You must think I'm a fool! Of course somebody made it, and he is a genius. I'd like to know who he is:”

Laying his book aside, Newton arose. Placing a hand on his friend's shoulder, he said, “This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know. I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer and maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without Designer or Maker — Now tell me: By what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?”

The infidel was at once convinced, and no doubt many who read these lines will be likewise impressed. Indeed it is “only right” to most people that we should “believe in God,” that is, in His existence. However, it is one thing to believe that God is, but another thing to actually believe God, that is, to believe what God says, and to take Him at His Word.

Reader, you may be in such a case right now — thinking your religion will bring you to God, when all the time it is taking you further and further away from God, and from His great salvation. You urgently need to be saved, and your only hope of salvation is in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Saviour of the world.

“Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4.12.

The Lord Jesus Himself said: “Ye believe in God, believe also in me,” John 14.1, and John 3.35,36 states: “The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into His hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on Him.”