Genesis 1:1-2
First this: God created the
Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of
nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit
brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
Scripture
quotations from The Message. © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002
by Eugene Peterson. Used by permission of NavPress, Colorado Springs,
CO. All rights reserved.
Last night, Timothy played
for more than an hour with a box of mis-matched Legos® that I picked up
several years ago at a yard sale. Included in the box were little
instruction booklets on how to construct quite a few objects. The
trouble is…this “bargain” assortment of pieces does not include
everything necessary to construct even one of those things. That did
not stop Timothy from settling on a helicopter and asking, “Can you make
this for me?”
He patiently showed me the steps in the booklet.
”We need this…and then this…” he noted, pointing to the photos and the
required pieces. Some we found in the convoluted contents of the
box…others we did not. After almost an hour of digging and “creative
modification,” we had a passable helicopter. We stared into the “abyss”
of that box of Legos® …and yes, we brooded a bit. But we were
determined - I was determined - to create SOMETHING that would make this little boy happy… and make me happy in the process.
God has always
cared about us. Even when He stared into the black abyss of
nothingness that would become the earth, He envisioned a creation.
Would it be perfect? Absolutely not…and God knew that! But He longed
to see us anyway…to behold our smiling faces and share in our lives –
the good, the bad, and the ugly. He was determined to do whatever He needed to make this happen, because He loves us so dearly.
You
probably have some understanding of what it means to love someone so
much that you want to please them…to see their smile and share in their
joy and well-being. Now multiply that times a zillion…and you still
don’t get how much God loves us…how deeply He desires great things for
us. He started with nothing…an inky blackness…a watery abyss…and He
created our world – and us. And He is here with us now, wherever – and
in whatever condition we may find ourselves. Don’t you feel His
presence?!
©2015 Debbie Robus
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