God Creates
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
“The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”
“For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.”
Genesis 1:1 might be a cliche to start a Scriptural blog post series with, but there is a reason that it’s the first verse of the Bible: it reveals a key element to God’s nature, He is a God who creates.
Heaven. Earth. Atoms. Time. Stars. Cephalopods. Iron. Trees. Helium. Cats. You. Me. Moss. Clouds.
God created all of that out of nothing. Every cycle (the water cycle, the oxygen cycle), every element (from hydrogen to nobelium), every living creature was created by God.
So, what does this mean?
First and foremost, it means that He is a good God. Secondly, it means that He is an all-powerful God.
He is a good God because, in all His creation, He has gifted us and every creature abundantly. There is food to eat of all kinds and varieties. There are trees to build houses with and plants to weave into fabrics. There is water, both fresh and salt, that supports all kinds of life. There is beauty from the tiniest little string of algae to the vast cosmos above our heads. God created good, it even says it in Genesis 1:31 “And God saw everything that He had made and, behold, it was very good…”
For the second part, well, He made all of that good out of…nothing. Genesis 1:2 states “[t]he earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep.” And from that void, that emptiness, He created light (Genesis 1:3). Light is something that is pretty easy to dismiss in modern society; we have electric lights, light from our phones and computer screens (my keyboard even lights up!), it’s ubiquitous and readily available. But without God creating it, there would be no light. The was no light. Only an all-powerful God can create something out of nothing!
God is many things; He is Just, He is Righteous, He is Merciful, and He is also Creative.
Putting it into Action: Take 10 minutes today to read the first chapter of Genesis and contemplate God’s creative nature. Look at the order of creation, think on what the earth/world was like at each stage. What did the earth look like without plants? Without animals?
