12-31-2005
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Formless Earth
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Genesis 1:2
Message of the verse: “The earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over
the face of the waters.”
This verse has raised a lot of questions of which they will
not be answered here, however I will write about some of the theories. The first theory is called the “Gap” theory,
and that came about from a book by G.H. Pember called Earth’s Earliest Ages, and in this book the author theorized that
because of the fall of Satan God had to remake the entire earth and so there is
a gap between the first and the second verses of Genesis.
As of
lately there have been many different people who theorize that the earth is
much older than what most Bible Scholars believe it to be and thus say that the
days in the creation were not twenty-four hour days, but very long periods of
time, like millions of years. The word
for day in the Hebrew does have different meanings, however when preceded by a
number they always mean a twenty-four hour day.
As far as
my belief on this I do believe that the earth was created just like the Bible
tells that it was, and that there was no gap between the first and second
verses and that the days were twenty-four hour days.
God does
not always tell us everything that we would like to know, but only tells us
what he wants us to know. Deu. 29:29
speaks to this when it says: “The secret
things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to
our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.”
This verse
seems to say that the initial creation of the earth was without any light at
all and it was also covered with water, and the Holy Spirit was hovering over
it like an eagle hovers over the earth now.
The question has already been raised as to why the Lord created the
earth in stages and why was it like this before He began to make it
perfect? Like Deu. 29:29 speaks to the
secret things do belong to the Lord and perhaps this is a secret thing that
does belong to Him and He does not want us to know why He made the earth in the
way He did. With that being said one can
look at the way some of the words used in this verse are used in other places
of the Scriptures to perhaps shed some light on this verse. The word “darkness” is mostly used in
conjunction with sin, but there was no sin committed by a man at this time
because man had not been created.
However man would soon be created and man would soon sin after he was
created, and if one would look at this world in a spiritual way it is pretty
dark, that is the world system, and pretty formless.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: As I look at and try to completely understand
what this verse is saying, I cannot understand it completely, and so faith has
to enter into the picture, faith in God that He will tell me the things that He
wants me to know, and faith to believe that it was God who created this world
that we live in. I don’t have to
understand everything that God has done, nor how He has done them, however I
must obey the things that God has revealed to me, and when I fall ask God to
forgive me as He has promised to do.
The Word of God was indeed a challenge to my heart as I read
and studied it this morning.
My Steps of Faith
Today: Trust the Lord to led and
direct my path in 2006 and give contentment to my heart as I go through the
troubles that He is leading me through.
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