I thought I’d pass along this entry from my devotional A Daily Encounter with God. I hope you will meditate on that Scripture and that you’ll get a glimpse of what an extraordinary God we serve!
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.—Genesis 1:1
Most Christians have read today’s verse, the first verse in the Bible. But I’m not sure many realize its simple, yet profound, message!
You see, this verse clearly states where mankind began and who created everything. God is the beginning of it all!
Yet Satan knows that if he can attempt to destroy the root of our faith among unbelievers, then he can go as far as trying to destroy the entire legacy of our faith.
This verse in Scripture signifies so many things—beginnings, generations, creation, the origin of man and woman, the family, and so on. The Bible’s first sentence is the perfect segue into discovering who God is and how He has chosen to bring us into a relationship
with Him.
Genesis 1:1 disperses all the ideas of atheism, polytheism, pantheism,
humanism, secularism, and naturalism. The Word of God deals with these theories at the outset.
The Bible says in 2 Timothy 3:16, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”
Over the next several days, I want to encourage you to read through the first chapter of Genesis. And as you do, it’s my prayer that your love and understanding of God’s Word will deepen… that you will be better equipped to share the message of Christ with our post-modern culture… and that you will deepen your biblical world view!
ARE YOU LETTING GOD’S WORD INFORM YOUR VIEW OF THE WORLD?
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Pastor Graham
Thanks for encouraging use to go deeper into knowing God the father. There is no other way to know God and love God with out knowing his word.
Genesis 1:1 begins at the beginning, but before the beginning, God was. God always was. God had no genesis. Theologians have defined this attribute of God as His independence or His aseity.
If God is independent of every other cause, then all that came into being came because God chose to make it. No one advised God. No one counseled Him. The will of no other being was considered. All that was made answers only to the wisdom and will of God. This Idea is confirmed elsewhere in scriptures.
Jeremiah 10:12
He hath made the earth by his power, He hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Psalm 115:3"But our God is in the heavens: He hath done whatsoever He hath pleased."
Colossians 1:16-17"For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: And he before all things, and by Him all things consist."
Romans 11:33-36
"O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been His counselor? Or who hath first given to Him, and it shall be recompensed unto Him again? For Of Him and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen."
He was there first, which gives Him preeminence. He created everything, which gives Him ownership. He has uncontested ownership.
The earth is the Lord's
LOVE AND MISS YOU PASTOR BE BLESSED!
SL
Excellent post.
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