In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. - Genesis 1:1-5
What was God thinking back there in the beginning? There wasn't light. There wasn't darkness. The Spirit was just hovering there over a vast roiling mass of nothing--no, not even nothing because that would allow me to measure its height, color, temperature and more, but it had none of that. It was the ultimate blank canvas--not just to paint and sculpt but fundamentally to speak. What brought order to the formless and substance to the empty and meaning to the meaningless were the words, "Let there be..." because they brought is to the is not.
I have an unexpected emotional response to that phrase here in these few verses. How powerful are God's words! From the one who is and was and always will be--from the great "I am" comes the verb "to be"--"let there be" That is uniquely God and uniquely beautiful. He spoke light and he took a moment to look at it and he had delight in it and he called it good. Why? Because God is good. Sometimes just thinking about that moment when there was not and then there was and what was was good--makes me admire God because he is the author of beautiful.
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