I take my text today from the beginning… right at the beginning – Genesis 1 v 1. I will also refer to other parts of the bible through the blog entry, but for the purposes of this particular Blog entry its apt that we look at the beginning.
“In the beginning, GOD created the heavens and the earth…” Genesis 1 v 1.
Firstly, welcome. My name is Mikey Nash and I am 21 from a little town called Birmingham in England. I have a burning desire to serve and be God’s servent and eventually to preach his name to the youth as a youth pastor. But for now, I work at a broker and I go to Monyhull Evangelical Church in Birmingham.
I feel I had to let you know a little bit about me so that you can understand the reasoning behind this Blog and why I love the Lord so much.
I’m going to break this first verse into 3 parts. Difficult I know, its only 10 words long but I think 3 key points come from this verse and from what its saying.
Part 1 – “In the Beginning…”
When we’re born, our lives begin. “Obviously, Mike you muppet” I hear you cry, but actually think about that for a second. Actually take a moment to take a step back from the phrase and look at it from a new angle. Being born makes our lives begin. We are wholey dependant on others to bring us into the world and when we’re very young we don’t even think or remember anything but we’re alive, we are breathing, we’re eating, and ultimately, we’re lost.
But this verse in Genesis is a little different, the Beginning Genesis talks about isn’t a superficial beginning like our first breath, for many millennia has already happened before we live. It may be ‘our’ beginning, but ultimately, it is more the middle (or end depending on what you read into revalation. I will touch upon that another time) of time. The beginning of the world is a “Godly” beginning, or to put it another way, a “devine” beginning.
“In the beginning”, in the beginning of everything, at the start of all things we know, at the birth of the world, however you want to put it. At this point, is the start of everything. Its difficult to conceve in our brains which are so used to time and space and other physical aspects that shape this world what was before “the beginning”, but for God who is not part of our time and is not govern by the physical aspects of this world, this age of “the world” is but a grain of sand on a beach. Therefore the beginning for God is not the beginning, it is only what he has created for his glory.
Part 2 – “In the Beginning, God”
Now we have the basis of the beginning and where it fits into our world, we have to also remember that in the beginning there was God. God has always been there from the start. When Steven Hawkins was analising the big bang and was looking at how the world was formed, the only thing that he could justify before the big bang was God.
For us Christians its very hard for us to imagine anything but God being there before the beginning but for non Christian folk, its even more difficult. I can remember speaking to someone who called himself an atheist about this very subject. I asked him what he thought had made the world. His answer was the Big Bang. I asked him further, what was around before the big bang and how old is the universe, he replied he didn’t know because there was nothing before the big bang but gas. Where did the gas come from was my next question. Silence followed and the answer came, I don’t know.
Our human minds cannot cope with anything outside of the physics of the world. We can’t comprehend the infinity of the universe, more over its creation soley for God to show his awesome power, and yet on this small planet some 22,000 miles around was where God created man. Actually think about that for a moment. The universe is massive. There are millions if not billions of stars spread out over an inifinate distance, each of those stars with its own planet system. But God chose this planet and us to send his son and for his son to die for us, for our sins. God is truly awesome.
Part 3 – “Created the heavens and the earth”
I’ve already touched upon this point, however it is worth driving home. God created us, God gave us this planet and designed everything about it. We can’t think about the smallest element in our world. But God knows each and every nano atom, at what makes an atom and he knows how it works and why.
There are some groups of Christians who think that science is against God, but actually, scientific research is only trying to find out what God already knows. There is something quite comforting about that for us really, that God already knows how many hairs we have on our heads, God already knows how many planets are out there and he already knows how it all works. The persuit of science is only the persuite of proving that God exists. Contreversal I know, but to me that’s the truth.
Its no coincidence that the world is a perfect tempreture, distance from the sun and size for humans and animals to survive. By God’s design that it is this way. Amazing really when you look out the window at the weather systems and how much detail there is in just a single leaf or even when we look out ourselves. We speak, we think, we breath, we can see. The chances of this happening by chance is an infinite number to 1, but for a Christian, its not.
Conclusion
Well there we have it, a little bit wishy washy I know but I hope that my words have gone someway to encourage you and to strengthen your own love and trust for God because, In the Beginning, there was God and God Created the heavens and the earth, for us. And because he created the world there is nothing that he cannot do within this world. I have seen this on many occasions and I thank God that he is watching me and caring about me.
Walk by Faith, Not by Sight.
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