The Beginning

I sat through an amazing sermon last night by Julia Bell from Hillsong's City Campus in Sydney. I have to say I went into that sermon thinking that I wasn't going to be magically transformed or anything like that .... Surprise , Surprise! I don't think I have honestly been more touched by a sermon than I was last night. The jest of the sermon was that we need to get back to the basics and back to the basic means reading our Bibles. I started the very tiring quest this morning and decided Id try a 1 year plan as suggested by Miss Bell and I was so so surprised by what God started to do in my heart.

When I picked up my Bible this morning and read the very first few pages in Genesis I came to realize just how amazingly surreal God works. See as soon as I read the verses , Genesis to me wasn't just another story about the beginning of matter and time , but rather it became a story of Gods work in my own life. In the beginning there was darkness and God hovered over the darkness ....how many times in our own lives have we not fallen into a wilderness period or a period of darkness and depression , a time void of anything concrete besides the silent reminder that God is there , silently lurking in the background ...To me those first verses resemble what God so often does in our lives in His own creation plan in us individually , He places us in a place of darkness and sometimes we even put ourselves there , but when we are freed and separated from the darkness there is light and the awesome journey begins . If we falter and fall and allow the enemy to steal from us we repeat the process of going back into the darkness. The great message is that no matter how much we screw up God keeps separating us from the darkness and plunges us into the light , if we choose to follow Him and Him alone.

Scriptures to mediate on :

Genesis 1:1

The Message (MSG)

^1-2First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.

^3-5 God spoke: "Light!"
And light appeared.
God saw that light was good
and separated light from dark.