Gen i&ii Creation

*Gen 1:2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
Gen 1:3 And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Gen 1:6 And God said: 'Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.'

I do not claim to solve any mysteries here. I am only blogging my ideas and observations.

This first chapter we travel back in time. In fact, we travel back before time. We go back before the beginning. Before reality was real. Before existence existed. Here we 'start' in eternity past. There was two things I see 'being' 'existing' here. God and water.

What about the earth mentioned in verse two? It says that it had no form and it was void, therefore it did not 'be' in eternity past. Why does it seem that water 'was' in eternity past? I can not say. I am making just an observation...I look forward to your comments.

God's first thing to create was Light. But darkness is mentioned in verse two? Darkness there is just a term used for nothing. Actually, less then nothing. There could be no darkness with out light. If light 'was not' then darkness could not be compared to anything, thus rendering it non-existent. When you jump in water you get wet. You become wet because you cease being dry. But what about a fish? It is nothing but wet. Only to a fish, wet is the state of things so it does not realize it is wet, that is all the fish knows. So with out light there was 'no' darkness. Once light was voiced into 'being' then could darkness be divided and made a separate thing.

Then God makes the firmament. This, I think is the start to the universe. Later on in the chapter we see God 'haning' the stars in the firmament/canopy/sky. The stars hang and move in the expanse of the universe. This is the creation of reality. Perspective. Being.

These are a few things I found interesting in these chapters. Comment it up I would love to hear what you think (not in disagreement with my ideas, but a voicing of your ideas)

May we see the awesome power and control of our wonderful creator through this reading.

40 Days Bloggin'

God has, as of right now, chosen for me to be unemployed. I am actively looking for a job. I try to apply to one or two places a day. So pray with me that God would provide a job, or whatever His will maybe. For the moment, I have a lot of free time. I do work around the house to keep busy, but still, large gaps of down time.

I needed to clear my head, last night, and think. I saw this time that has been given to me as a time to study and reflect. To study God and His word. And to reflect on my relationship with God and my attitude towards others.

There is a 40 day reading schedule in the front of one of my Bibles. I thought I would read through that schedule. As a means of keeping track and actively thinking about the days passage I thought it useful to keep a blog about it.

I start today!

God's Love for Us

I know I have not written for many weeks. There has beena string of events that have unfolded in God's perfect timing. These events have detered me from my writting but I think I am back in the swing of things.
I think over the past couple of weeks God has spoken to me about my worth. God has been showing me who He is and what I am, but now I am seeing his love for me. Psalm cxiii.5,6 who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high, who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!

It says here that God humbles Himself to look on us. We must bring into account all the truths about the beings mentioned here.
1. God is absolute Holy; He does not have to look upon us.
2. Man is absolute coruption; he does not deserve to be looked upon.
3. God's love, beyond our understanding, for man compels Him to humble Himself and look upon His lowly creation and care for it.

What a treasure we are in God. On our own we are nothing and the rebel of creation; but in God, we are the most loved and cared for creatures in the Kingdom.

Ps xciv REFUGE!!!

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I will say to the LORD, 'My refuge of and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.'
We are looking at what God has to say about Himself. And no book contains more of God than the Book fo the Psalms. In the past three-part post we saw God as our perfect creator. Lets move to psalm 91 were God is our perfect refuge.
This whole paspsage is completely about, God, the one to whom we may run to. Verse 2 says He will be our refuge and and fortress. We can view God as this great tower. Unbreakable, inpenitrable, unshakable. A mighty tower that we may run to for protection. At any time (v5) anywhere (vv9,10) from any danger (vv10,13) God will protect us.
How does our God do this? Through the mighty covering of His wings (v4) Like a mother hen covering her brewd with her wings, in the same way our God covers us with His wings. What a place of peace and absolute security! May each of us make God our refuge and habitation.

BOOK REVIEW!!!

Once a month on the third week of the month I will be doing a book review. Hopefully books that most of you guys haven't read. This months book I'm sure everyone has read but one friend of mine said he would read the blog if I did a book review of this on.

don't waste your life:
The author of this book is the well read and well versed pastor of the Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, John Piper.
Being one of his best selling books Don't waste your life is a must read for any Piper fan. The ol' cult classic that we all know and love should be on every pastors shelf and for that matter your shelf. This book is not only a great hit it has also lead to the 'don't waste your life tour' but has been the theme for t-shirts, rap songs, and countless other parafanielia.
The books starts with the testimony of Pastor Piper and his upbringing in Minnisota. He testimony is great to hear, good to think on, but these first two chapters can be somewhat 'dry' and a little hard to get into. But hang on and strap on our safty-belts kidos cause chapter three blows you out of the shallow end and into the Blazing Centre of the Gory of God!
This book makes you take a hard look at your own life and makes you ask the question; Am I wasting my own life? I know it seems every book I pick up is 'life-changing'. But I were to say hat of any book with sure authority, it would be this one. 'May it never be said that I wasted it...'

Psalm cxxxix part III

vs.15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, inticately woven in the depths of the earth.

The wording in this portion of the chapter is so poetic and beautiful! What a thougth that is brougth here about David's acount of God's forming of us. I will praise they for I am fearfuly and wonderfully made!
God has know you even before the womb (v16) He has seen our unformed substance. How can you see something that is not formed yet? Only God can! It says God reads the book of our members (v16) and He knits us (v13) and weaves us (v15) from this unseen, unformed substance.

When a loved-one is diagnosed with cancer we can rest assured that God knows what He is doing in that situation. When a small baby contracts a terminal desiese we can trust in God that He knows exactly what the problem is and He is in complete comtrol. What a great God!

Psalm cxxxix Part Deux

vs.8,9 If I take the wings of the morning...even there Your hand shall lead me,

What a great comfort to know that our god is with us everywhere we go. How does He do this? Because He is everywhere at once.

This is called omnipresence, I know, pretty basic stuff for most of us. Augustine explaned it somewhat like this; its not that God is spread thin through out the whole earth, it is that He abundantly dwells in every area of his creation.
We know that the presence of God may be manifested in difernet places but what a great God we serve that is with us up high and down low (v8). Or even day or night (vs11,12). What a great God!