Genesis 1
Part one of my musings from Genesis.
Isn’t it amazing we serve a God of order!? Unlike many of its contemporaries, the Hebrew creation story stands in vast contrast; a God of order compared to creation through chaos. The surrounding nations of the time tended to have the similar concept, waring deities resulting in the creation of the world. Compare this to the Hebrew story of orderly and intentional creation of the world by a peaceful and all powerful God.
God chose to make this beautiful and perfect world, knowing full well that humans, the crown of His creation would rebel and ruin it all. He could have spared Himself the pain of seeing the world He lovingly and carefully created destroyed. He could have saved Himself thousands of years of mockery and rebellion. Ultimately, He could have saved Himself from the pain and humiliation of the cross. He could have done this through many means; not creating humans (or the world), controlling us and making us robots, making us differently, morally better people. Yet He does none of this. Instead, we see all three parts of the Godhead carefully and intentionally, speaking, creating, and breathing life into this world.
It truely is amazing that the God who holds the power to create the universe, chose to let the crown of His creation, the one part honoured to be made in His image, rebel, causing devastation unlike anything else. Yet through this devastation, the greatest act of love and redemption is able to take place.
How incredible that, in that place of utter destruction, love flourishes. I don’t think our mortal minds can truely comprehend the immensity of our sin or the cross. The two ends of the scale, so far apart, so impossible to comprehend, yet so central and defining to our lives.
Thank you God for your unfathomable love and grace on the cross. Thank you that you are a God of order and you chose to create us despite of everything we have done. We look forward to the new creation when we can be with you once again in paradise.
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Musings by Tee 