2 :: In The Beginning God
November 24, 2021 • Genesis 1:1
Once you begin the journey of agreeing with God and truly following Him, it is vitally important that you study closely the way God started everything in motion. How did He create? What was happening in the mind of God when He started? How was His attitude? Where was His heart? Where was His person? What was His approach in the creation of all things?
Let’s take a look at the first 5 words of the Bible.
In ... the ... beginning ... God ... created.
Memorize it :: Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Now ... let’s look closely at each of the 5 http://words.break it down.
In ::
Beginning with “In” is beautiful and teaches us a massive amount about the mind and heart of God. You see God was in it at the beginning. He, like really Him, was in the beginning. Being Creator comes with incredible abilities, one of which was the ability to hand off creation. He could have contracted out the creation of the world along with you and me ... but He didn’t! He was in it from the beginning. He was present. He was leading the creation effort of it all, and He used the word “in.”
God was “in” then, and He’s “in” now. He never leaves.
He was in. He was has always been all in.
The ::
Then there’s The.
It’s fun to think about each of these five words and especially fun to spend some time meditating on and about “the.” The indicates one. This “one,” is foundational because we’re taught here that there truly was a beginning. There is no way for our finite minds to comprehend anything before the beginning, but there was a beginning. The was “the” beginning. One start. One. Once there was nothing, and now there is something.
God is the Maker of the beginning.
Just like “in”, “the” paints a beautiful picture of God. We learn here that there is one beginning, and God was there. There weren’t multiple beginnings of the world. There was one. God was “In the.”
We see a God of involvement in the word “the”. We see a God with a plan in the word “the.”
If He can handle “the” beginning, He can handle your circumstances. If He was present in the first “big” beginning, He will be there for our big beginnings as well.
Beginning ::
Such a powerful but sometimes overlooked word. Beginning is incredible because in it we have the picture of a God that can make something start simply by thinking and then speaking. When He spoke a hundred billion moments started, everything that has ever existed took on life. The beginning in Genesis marks the point in our history where life really began. Before this moment there was nothing. After this moment, the foundation was laid for everything. Just think, before the beginning there were no whales, elephants, or giraffes. Before He acted, nothing like waterfalls and snow coveredsnow-covered mountains were even a concept. Before the beginning there was silence ... after the beginning the sounds we love so much entered the ears of us all.
The beginning was also His idea. He made it. He thought it up. He figured it out. He needed no help either. The Godhead we know as the Trinity (God the Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit) made the beginning.
Stop sometime soon and consider before the beginning. Nothing ... the void ... silence ... darkness ... simply nothing. Then God. Then He started. He was alive and well before our beginning, but we had nothing before He made it all.
He was in the before ... He made the beginning.
Remember the One who made “the one and only beginning,” can make you the beginning you need right now. Stop and ask Him to make you the beginning you need so desperately. Don’t lose hope. It may be quiet and dark where you are right now, but the beginning is found in Him.
His Words make beginnings live. Read and explore His Word often. You’ll experience life like you never knew was even an option thought possible.
Need a beginning? He’s ready and waiting. Check out Jeremiah 33:3. He waits for your call. He has answers for your darkness. The One who spoke a few billion stars into motion and perfect alignment can certainly step in and untangle your world in a flash.
God ::
Our first sighting of God in the history of our world is one of Him doing what He does best.…CREATING! Notice He needs no other being to come alongside Him to make everything work just like it does. There is one God and He was in the start. The fourth word in the Bible has three little letters, but it’s truly the most powerful word in all of our pretty incredible language.
God! Creator. Sustainer. Maker. Originator.
It’s also incredibly important for our Journey that we know who it is that is doing everything. Scripture, four words in, identifies the One who it is all about. God is the hero. No one else. He is King. He is Ruler. We live in the Kingdom of God. The interesting thing about a kingdom is that the King is in charge, and the King isn’t elected. He is the clear leader, and the One who does it all. This God we see in Genesis is the One True God.
At the end of the Bible the writer says Amen ... the writer was agreeing with the first 4 words and agreeing that God is the One who made it all.
As you read and think today, please notice who is present in this moment. Only God was there. Only God.
The Bible makes a massive point 4 words in ... the point is that God is the hero. He is the One who gets it all. He is the One who reigns supreme.
Please notice that He needed no one to make everything. One of the downsides of the culture we live in today is that it raises the minds of humans and elevates us to a place where we were never meant to live. Genesis, the fourth word in, shouts that God needed no help to make it all. He has no equal. He seeks no counsel. He is in charge.
