In The Beginning.

Genesis.

I still struggle to fathom the time before the world began. When nothing existed. The time before mountains, or dinosaurs, or trees.

God in his triune perfection reigned, but all else was dark and void....until He spoke. "Let there be light" and for the first time in all of eternity, the stillness of velvety darkness was broken.

Light. Water. Land. Plants. Sun. Birds. Sea Creatures. Land Animals. Man. Woman. And God saw that it was "good" and on the seventh day he rested from his work.

Though these opening verses of the Bible are perhaps the most often quoted of all scripture,I am still floored by the absolute power of our God. He spoke light into existence, he created all that exists and upholds the physical universe.

We aren't random products of a random universe....we didn't rise up from the goo after millions of years of evolution. We were created by God in his image for the sole purpose of bringing Him glory. Not that God needed us to increase his glory. We are utterly incapable of doing any such thing. Rather, like a mirror that reflects the image of what stands before it, as God's creation we reflect the glory of the Creator. Our great God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

So, let us revel in the joy we find in Jesus and rest in the knowledge that our great God is powerful to do all things.