Sunday, February 1, 2009

Today’s Passage: Genesis 1-3

There are so many things we could reflect on in this passage! We could talk about God making man in His own image. We could talk about woman being the perfect companion. We could talk about sin entering the world. As you read the passage this morning, one of those may have jumped out at you. If it did, feel free to comment and let us know.

For me today, it was the combination of two phrases: “In the beginning” and “And God said.” I’m trying to wrap my mind around “the beginning.” At some point in history, all that existed was God in three parts…Father, Son, and Spirit…yet all as one. There was just God and nothing else. I try to picture it in my head, but my little brain can’t begin to comprehend it. That almighty, all-powerful God decided that there needed to be a beginning…a beginning of creation, a beginning of a story that would lead to relationship, sin, struggle, and eventually the sacrifice of that same God so that there could be relationship again, both now and forever. It was in this moment that it all began.

And how did it begin? With a huge struggle? With a God-sized effort? No, it simply began when God spoke. He didn’t have to strain or come up with the energy. He simply spoke and it was. “And God said, “Let there be light.”” “And God said, “Let there be an expanse..”” “And God said, “Let us make man in our own image.”” God spoke, and it was.

I feel like I have to say things three or four times just to get the girls to eat their lunch or pick up their toys, but God speaks once and forms the heavens and the earth. That kind of power is overwhelming to imagine….and that power lives in me. That makes my head hurt just a little!