In The Beginning

There are at least two places in the Bible that talk about "In the Beginning."  One is in the Old Testament and one in the New.  I suppose that there is no other event anywhere recorded more important than this one.  If there was no beginning of this world, then of course there would be no us...and no blog here to discuss it.  So perhaps it is worth our time to consider the beginning.

It has always been interesting to me that the Bible begins with this one powerful statement, maybe the most powerful statement ever made: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."  That answers a lot of questions like, how did the world and heavens get made?  And is there a God?  And the verses thereafter tell us how it all happened and in what sequence.  Were it not for the first chapters of Genesis we would have no idea...except for the wild speculations that we sometimes hear from the "wise" of our day.

In the New Testament we read of the beginning in the first chapter of the book of John.  "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.  In Him was life, and the life was the light of men."  In this passage we learn something new about the Creation, the beginning.  We learn that the Word, Jesus, was there and not only there, but it was all made through Him.  Thus we know that Jesus was,  always was, always existed, always was active...and was active in the Creation.

For those of us who are believers, who are Christians, we know that these things are true.  But for much of the world, much of society, these teachings, these facts are not so known or accepted.  We know there is a God, that He made the world and all around it, and we are comforted in knowing that He is in control.

Praise be Him, the great and mighty LORD.

Thanks for reading and have a great and happy week!