Wednesday January 5, 2011
It’s hard to believe that 2010 has ended and 2011 has started. Happy New Year to everyone! I trust and pray that 2011 will be even better than 2010 and that you prosper in all the things that God has for you to do, just be sure to listen for His voice. This year our small group will begin the year by studying the first 11 chapters of Genesis. In the very first verse in the book of Genesis, we are told that the world began as an undistinguishable wasteland of voided emptiness. There was chaos and so much happening, yet nothing. There was so much movement, yet no benefit, no profit, no purpose. Have you ever had a day like that? So much going on, yet nothing coming from it? Maybe you’re going through the motions and still feeling dead. That wasteful and lacking feeling is something God does not like. God was not content with "nothing" he was only satisfied and though of something as "good" when it was producing, and this principle echoes all throughout the New Testament. Do you ever have those days in which you keep yourself busy just to escape from everything? Nothing was thrown together here; the scriptures use the word, “divided” for God separating the light and dark, etc. The word divided comes from the Hebrew word, badal which means to distinguish with a purposeful intent. When God began to shape and create the world, he started to assign, separate and distinguish this chaotic expanse that existed. In this we see the first glimpse of the personality and attributes of God. I heard somewhere this quote:
“The simplicity of your destiny is that the starting line begins wherever you decide, and the finish line ends wherever you can make it to.” The boundaries and confides of life are stretched between our wants and cans. God finished his creating acts by handing us the baton, telling us to create and shape our lives and our world. This is a charge echoed by Jesus to us in some of his final days on the earth.
So let us create! Let us dream! Using the principles found in the Creation week will lead to an amazing impact on our community but also in our own life. Let's strive together, to be tactful and create, assign and lead the way God did and don't forget to pass it on to someone else. I am looking forward to studying with my group the beginning of things as we start a new year together.
Books Currently Reading: The Fire Within, by Thomas Dubay
Current Bible Readings / Studies: Genesis 1 -11
Devotions: Reading through the Book of Ezra
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