Made in China

Have you ever noticed that nearly everything we lift nowadays has three little words on the bottom? ‘Made in China’. Now I have a problem with this statement and it is not anything to do with a dislike for the Chinese. I have a problem with the use of the word ‘made’.

When we really sit down and think about it, people don’t really make anything, we just rearrange things that already are there. We speak about making lunch, but really we just prepare lunch. Sometimes we hear people bemoaning the decline of the British manufacturing industry and they say, ‘Britain doesn’t make anything anymore’, the truth is we never did, we might have rearranged things but we never made anything. The metals that go into manufacturing anything come from various ores already present in the earth, the food that we eat whether it is bread or beef is just rearranged soil nutrients, that we might prepare into a loaf or a sausage but we didn’t make them. Even things that are so called man-made like polyester or plastic are made from elements already in existence in nature.

The Scientist in the lab can experiment all day on chemicals and compounds, he can observe them and arrange them, taking bits out and adding bits in, he can arrange them and rearrange them but he cannot MAKE them. Man has never made anything that is make something from nothing. No Sir, only God can do that. In his introduction to his Gospel the Apostle John speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ (who is God) said.

‘All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.’ John 1 v3

God is the true source of all created things! The Greek word translated ‘made in this verse is the word ginomai, it literally means to come into existence or begin to be. No man has ever brought anything into existence this is the act of an omnipotent God. Let’s give credit where credit is due.

‘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:’ Colossians 1 v16

Made in China? No! Rearranged in China would be better.