In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
In the first two verses of the Bible The Lord shows the depth and height and width of Himself to the created object of His love. He is Love and we are the result, the purpose and the object of the outpouring of Himself, Love!
Creation was not to showcase Yahweh, but rather to show the recipient object of His unfathomable person. Each piece, each detail given to us in the Bible account is accurate, true, important, and culminates in His greatest moment of evidencing His Love. He created out of the nothing; nothing is best defined as the lack of His “causing to be”. He created out of nothing the everything which is the perceptible presence of His purpose. The heavens and the earth is comprehensive, inclusive and intricate.
Comprehensive because it comprises all of His creation from beginning to end in one expression. It represents the place for His earth, the universe; the place for His purpose (man), the earth; the place for His love heart, the man.
Inclusive becasue there is nothing within our knowledge the is not created by Him, nothing existing as a result of the consequences of His creative act that He has not allowed and nothing which can exist without praising Him for the purpose He allows in His plan, His creation.
Intricate becasue it is the completly interwoven complexity of who He is at the very core of our being anything at all and yet His everything He is willing to cease to exist for. He is the smoothness of slick, the pop and power of wow, the amazement of knowledge beyond comprehension.
He so superintends each moment of the existence of His creation that it responds only to the radiance hovering over it, His Spirit. You cannot be, do, express, breathe, love, fail or die without His purposeful intersection with that particular moment in existence. Each molecule, each strand of DNA, each uncontainable thought is the expression of Him. Each obedience of the all of His creation to Him is the response of love to the love responsible for them.
This year is His. This moment, this joy, this sorrow, this peace, this conflict, this is His. We are His. This is the best moment this can possibly be, Nothing is Harder than Now.
This is the year to obey.