The story of Redemption starts with laying down the framework of who God is and these first two chapters of Genesis do a great job of just that. The idea of God speaking creation into existence is awesome. He didn't just think it or just do it, he spoke it into being. He said "let there be light" and there was. That's awesome. It's who he is, hes not the God who just does it, he's intentional and he speaks life. his words are creative and they produce something where there was nothing. verse 28 says he blessed them (humans) with his words. this theme carries throughout all the scriptures seen all the time in the act of a blessing, someone speaks, and it happens (Isaac blesses Jacob). God continues to speak life in chapter 2: he forms man out of dust, and breathes life into him. he speaks into dirt and life generates. Within God's voice is the essence of Life. later on in the scriptures God breathes Life on to dead bones and the re-animate. I wonder about the life God is giving us right now as he speaks to us through his word. Jesus is called the Word in Johns gospel and he is the creative word of life. Jesus is this word, this living breath that is what holds us together. It's so cool to see the Trinity in action here, the father who speaks the word who is Jesus and in this we see the breath of life the spirit within man giving and sustaining life.
The text says that God says lets create man in "our" image. we see God here is in relationship with himself. crazy right? the Hebrew word for God here is Elohim which means God, but it's in the plural. We see the trinity here, God is in perfect intimacy within himself so that when he creates man, in his image he is also made for intimacy made for relationships, with God and with others. It's no wonder that once we focus on man in chapter 2 he's lonely. I feel like this so much that I'm made for more, and the more i pray about it and read about it i think we are all made with this longing for God and for relationships. I love the way Adam talks once he sees Eve for the first time. At last...flesh of my flesh bone of my bone... he's pumped. Young life has a slogan I used to hate but now I love. "you were made for this", it's silly but it's true, Adam was made to be in relationship with God and Eve. he was made in the image of God who is in relationship. Adam notices here that he was made for her, she was made for him. and we are "made for this" we are spoken into existence and made for relationships by a relational God. It's cool to think about how Jesus came to earth to live with us to be in relationship with us.
I like your mention of God giving us life through His word. Sometimes after reading the bible I can look up and there is just a sense that everything is full of life and I know that God's word is alive. How wonderful is our God!
ReplyDeleteword. In college i did a hebrew word study on the first verses of the bible, and it's neat how its worded. it doesn't say in the beginning, God created... it says "In the beginning (or starting) of Gods Creating of the heavens... which means what follows isn't like a a play by play necessarily, but this is what it looked like when he started to create, pushing God as beginnings and endless, he was before the beginning of creation, we just know about the start.
ReplyDeletewhen God speaks He gives life... how cool. the first summer of dfocus psalm 33:6 really amazed me at the beauty and hugeness of who God is in a way that i hadn't understood before. it says "the LORD merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born." this simplicity and might in the way He created us is insane. it was so natural, He just GAVE LIFE. just, amazing.
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