Thinking about the creation event in Genesis 1:1 What a beautiful description also of the salvation of a sinner... from the foundation of the world remember?
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth" In the beginning... GOD. That's the point folks. He is the Alpha and Omega - the Beginning and the End, and I put it to you, everything in between as well. This is ALL about Him, and the sooner we get a clue the better!
"The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep". What a stunning picture of the sinner... formless, void and covered with darkness... literally dead.
"And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters". The word picture drawn here is that of a mother hen brooding over her chicks with tenderness. The Spirit of God broods over the sinner convicting him of his sin, drawing him to Christ.
"And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light" The light is Salvation, the same light spoken of in John 3:19. That light is Jesus Christ. And GOD said... and there was.
Redemption foretold in creation, the foundation of the world... to the glory of God Almighty!
Not escaping the attention of the astute is the reality that the 'earth' did not 'choose' to receive the light, for it was at the time, formless, void and covered in darkness (Heb chôshek - figuratively, 'death').
GOD said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
In the beginning GOD... Perspective is important!
“Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the LORD have created it". Isaiah 45:8
The LORD has created it...
The LORD has created it...
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