Gen 1:1 In the beginning ……… God gave us the story of salvation.
You are probably saying what Bible version is that?
The Bible states this: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over over the face of the waters.
Then God said “Let there be light” and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good, and God divided the light from the darkness.
I beleive the first 4 verses introduces the story of Salvation and our spiritual journey. Let me explain.
The words “In the beginning” is not about God as He has no beginning. God has always existed. It is about the beginning of us on planet Earth.
When it describes the Earth it states it is formless and void. I believe there is a parallel here. I see this state (without form or void) as a description of us without God in our life. We don’t reflect anything of God we are nothing without God. We are in total darkness.
Then we see God’s Grace as he has His Spirit hovering over the waters, which describes people/multitudes ( see Is 18:12, 5:30, Jer 51:42). I view this as the Spirit hovers over the people and tries to influence people to come to God or as verse 3 states it that we come into the Light.
At this stage we need to read some verses out of John 1. Here it describes the Light that was to come into the world and that Light was God in the form of Jesus. John 1:9 states “That was the true Light (Jesus) which gives light to every man coming into the world” To me this relates back to Genesis 1. We have our beginning and the Spirit hovers over us until we come into the Light and out of darkness.
Until we come into the Light we are separated from God, that is, we are without form or void. The Spirit hovers over all people (the waters) and tries to influence us to see the Light. It is when we see that Light we know what darkness is. That is, a life without the Light (Jesus) is a life of darkness.
Because we are in the Light we are perfect even though may look that we are still formless and void.
So on the first day of our spiritual journey we are perfect as we are in the Light and no longer separated from God. We still may look like the old person who was in the darkness but we are perfect because of the Light.
I see the following day (2-6) in the creation week as our spiritual journey (still in the Light). Each day we see God’s creation in us because Christ (the Light) is in us and we change to exude more of Him in our lives. Just as much we would have seen the changes on Earth after each day.
It is interesting that each day God says “and it was good” or perfect as God only makes perfect.
So if you were looking from space at the changes going on during the creation week you would see all things are perfect and as the days progressed perfection would look better and better until the completion of the creation on day 6. God’s work in us is the same. As our walk with Jesus on our spiritual journey others will see in us a change. For us we just keep looking at Jesus or as Peter found the water did not hold him and he went under when he took his eyes off Jesus.
I need to emphasis that it doesn’t matter what day you are on your journey whether day1 or 2 or 6 you are perfect in God’s eye as you have the Light (Jesus) in you.
I could explain the significance of the creation of fruit and trees and the stars, waters etc but this would make this a disertation rather than a readable blog. Maybe I can challenge you to think and research those links to our development as a child of God.
So what happened on the seventh day? The Bible states “He rested on the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made”
It always puzzled me, why does God have to rest when he is all powerful. Surely God doesn’t have to rest after 6 days of labour? Using the parallel that this story is explaining our salvation I would say God rested at the end of the recreation of us because it is the time when we are in heaven and sin is no longer existing in the universe. God can then rest that sin will no longer return to the universe, all have seen the effects of sin and how it took the sacrifice of Jesus to eventually eradicate sin.
It is interesting that God said He sanctified the day. Well the word sanctify means “free from sin” and that is exactly what happens when God is vindicated as a loving God full of Grace and Mercy. The universe is free from sin forevermore.
Wow what a great thought, but more so, what a great promise! Living with God for eternity resting in the fact that sin will never exist again.
My Biblical Thoughts 