Genesis 1:1-2
The beginning. Such a mind blowing concept.
The beginning of our universe, the beginning of time as we know it perhaps. God exists outside of our concepts of space and time – these are concepts that He created. To try to know God is to seek an unattainable goal in some respects. Yet He wants us to know Him, and so at the beginning of the universe God creates it all.
I am not sure how this story was originally passed on. Whether in the days that Moses spent with God, God told him all about it, or whether it was passed down from generation to generation through telling the story. I will not debate here “days” as we know them, nor aspects of time.
What is important to me here is that God created it all. Every natural thing we know and all the laws that govern how it all works. It was intentional and after God put all the laws, boundaries and plans in place, He came to focus on a small planet.
The place in the universe was central in the eye of God. God began creating a place for mankind to live with all the wonders on it and around it. Up to this point there was nothing really to Earth – it was just a wet rock in space.
The imagery of the Spirit of God hovering over the planet to me is an image of someone who has planned something and is about to get started. Like a painter holding out a brush before a blank canvas, or a sculpter with a fresh batch of clay, everything is prepared…
