I have just finished reading this fascinating book by a particle physicist. On these beautiful verses for today, he shines new light. When we think of him as if he were a painter, sweeping large brushstrokes across nature, layer after layer, and sitting back to admire his handiwork, the author says we restrict our vision of the Artist. It's way too static.
It's a better image to consider him as the designer, let 's say, of a TV scene. God has his hands on all the knobs and buttons that are perfect. The picture on the computer is preserved as he jiggles them and fine-tunes them. With just the proper timing and series, a billion sparks of light fly across the screen in just the right order. The truth of it all persists as long as God manages all the billions upon billions of information to create the picture on the computer.
The picture on that Television screen will not become messy if he were to take his fingers off the control system; it would just ceases to be. That's the best way Hebrews 1:3 can be described
“In these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.”
—Hebrews 1:2-3