Genesis 1:1-5 - In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God
was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”;
and there was light. And God saw the light, that it
was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God
called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the
morning were the first day.
If we start at the very beginning…the best place to start…we
find the spirit of God hovering over a formless mass of earth. We are not told what went through his
infinite mind to decide that he wanted more than just a formless void to hover
over….but I am pretty sure that love powered the thought to make it into
something that he could share with man.
Just as he divided the waters from land…the light from the
dark…and the time into measurable increments….he divided the matter of his
earth into his image…that of man and woman. He looked down on everything he had
made…and said it was good. Then he
charged man with the job of caring for all he had made.
What an awesome thought…God did not need anything to exist…but
he wanted to share his time with man…so he created a world that man could exist
in…and learn about the love that made him by caring for everything thing else
that God had made. His creation did not need time…or death…or fear…it was a
sinless sanctuary. In the beginning…God…created his world…and his people.
Father…thank you for the reminder that you are the beginning
of the story. Nothing I have would be if you had not made it. Forgive me for
ever thinking that this world is about me and my happiness. Help me to always remember that I was created
for your purposes. Amen.
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