In The Beginning

When God Created

In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth,

Genesis 1:1

And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.” So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”

So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:20-27

Some people can not get over the fact that God was here from the beginning. He predated the heavens. The heavens were a formless void. People would like to think there was an explosion of energy and matter, and because of that somehow an atmosphere conducive to life was formed.

What we do with “In the beginning God” is at the center of it all. We must either believe His Word – and everything His Word claims – or we must believe that our meaningless lives resulted from an accidental, mindless chain reaction.

Only God could create the cosmos out of nothing.

Our Daily Bread – December 13, 2008