Beginnings

Genesis 1:1,2

Beginnings, the point in time or space at which something starts; have you ever  given thought to the many beginnings you’ve lived through?  It you could go back to your birth and count them, would it blow your mind, on the number that has happened to you.  As a baby, you began on milk and the first big change was solid food, well not all that solid, but it was change.  Then think of all the ending of relationships and the beginning of others.  Life on planet earth is all about beginnings, and so as we look at the book of beginnings, take a few minutes to look back on the ones you can recall in your life.

Have you ever given thought to the first verse of Genesis?  That verse with ten words will establish what you believe about God.  In that you and I had a beginning, God the Creator did not have a beginning and He has no end, He is eternal.  This is what Genesis 1:1, states; “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

Moses is commonly accepted as the one who wrote this book, and it was not God’s purpose to give an elaborate account of the Creation.  Only a single chapter is devoted to the subject, it is more like an outline containing a few facts, while thirty-eight chapters are given to the history of the chosen people of God.

God has not left us without information on the beginning, the apostle John wrote in John 1:1-4, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.  In him was life, and the life was the light of men.”  Jesus Christ is the Word; He came to bring you and me out of darkness into light, and that is the most important beginning of all our beginnings.  Our foundation of faith is based on “acting like Jesus tells the truth,” that is what my dear brother Carroll Ray Jr. told me many times.  Hebrews 1:10-12, states; “And, you Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands; they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment, like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed.  But you are the same, and your years will have no end.”

Genesis 1:1 is a show stopper for many, Hebrews 11:3, states; “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”   That Scripture alone will shoot down most of mans’ theories on how the universe came into being.  The sad thing is that many will not put their faith in verse one,  “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”  But many of those same folks will tell you that they are trusting Jesus to forgive them and make them in right standing with the God, who they believe is too small, to speak the universe into being.  If your god is that small, I would find a new one, that god will never be able to raise the dead.

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice