Genesis Chapter One
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
(Gen 1:1)
Have you ever tried to think about what it would be like to exist outside of time, space, and matter? Go ahead and try it for a minute and see if you get anywhere…
…can you imagine anything?
…is your mind totally blank and unable to compute it?
If you are anything like me, it is nearly unimaginable! Yet here in this verse we realize that time, space, and matter are all CREATED things! Contrary to some scientific theories, matter has not always existed, the clock hasn’t always been running, and there hasn’t always been space to occupy. Before any of these things had their beginning there was GOD. He has always been and will always be, He is the Eternal One.
This Verse gives us some insight into just how great our God is. Look at the word “created”. It means “to make something out of nothing”. It is something no man can ever do, something unique to the nature and character of God. He didn’t take up pre-existing ingredients and mix up a bowl of “world”, He spoke and it came to be!
TIME – “in the beginning”… The beginning of what? The beginning of time, without it we would not have LIFE! A world without time wouldn’t be a world at all… it would be impossible to remember anything, and past, present, and future would mean NOTHING!
SPACE – “the heavens” …we are talking about the blank sheet with three dimensions; height, depth, and width. We cannot exist without space, there could be no RESTON, VA if God hadn’t first created the dimensions we live in.
MATTER – “the earth” … The actual stuff that makes up you, and me, and the ground we walk on, the trees we sit under, the seas we swim in, and the food we eat.
All this was made by God, in the beginning… no pre-existing space sludge, no big bang, just the almighty God who made it all for HIS PLEASURE! So today as you walk around in this world we live in, thank God for making it all, and marvel at the fact that He lives in the eternal, outside of time, space, and matter.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
(Gen 1:1)
Have you ever tried to think about what it would be like to exist outside of time, space, and matter? Go ahead and try it for a minute and see if you get anywhere…
…can you imagine anything?
…is your mind totally blank and unable to compute it?
If you are anything like me, it is nearly unimaginable! Yet here in this verse we realize that time, space, and matter are all CREATED things! Contrary to some scientific theories, matter has not always existed, the clock hasn’t always been running, and there hasn’t always been space to occupy. Before any of these things had their beginning there was GOD. He has always been and will always be, He is the Eternal One.
This Verse gives us some insight into just how great our God is. Look at the word “created”. It means “to make something out of nothing”. It is something no man can ever do, something unique to the nature and character of God. He didn’t take up pre-existing ingredients and mix up a bowl of “world”, He spoke and it came to be!
TIME – “in the beginning”… The beginning of what? The beginning of time, without it we would not have LIFE! A world without time wouldn’t be a world at all… it would be impossible to remember anything, and past, present, and future would mean NOTHING!
SPACE – “the heavens” …we are talking about the blank sheet with three dimensions; height, depth, and width. We cannot exist without space, there could be no RESTON, VA if God hadn’t first created the dimensions we live in.
MATTER – “the earth” … The actual stuff that makes up you, and me, and the ground we walk on, the trees we sit under, the seas we swim in, and the food we eat.
All this was made by God, in the beginning… no pre-existing space sludge, no big bang, just the almighty God who made it all for HIS PLEASURE! So today as you walk around in this world we live in, thank God for making it all, and marvel at the fact that He lives in the eternal, outside of time, space, and matter.
