In the beginning, is a phrase used to denote the timing of something or someone. We talk about relationships, a building, the reading or writing of a book, a disease, or a song. We act as if we created something, and in our eyes we have. However, to create something in the purest form means to start with nothing and end up with something. This is a task no human has ever achieved. Only God can start with nothing and make something. In scripture, we find God manifests himself in three persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. In John 1:1-3 we see that God the Son, Jesus, is referred to as the Word and He was involved with God in the creation. Genesis 1:1 teaches us that “in the beginning” there was God. People often ask, where did God come from? If everything has a beginning how did God begin? The answer, He always was and always will be. Think about it, if God were created, we would want to know how and who created Him. We must accept by faith that He is, and was God, and in the beginning, before there was anything, there was GOD.
John 1:1-3 “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 was not anything made that was made”
Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
All creation started with God. In Genesis 1:1, he created the heavens and the earth. Our beautiful natural world was created by God Himself. Out of nothing came everything to support and sustain the life He would create to place on it. In the beginning, He created exactly what was needed for all life to succeed.
This past week I taught Vacation Bible School. Our destination this week was different parts of Australia. Once again, I was amazed when we visited the Eucalypt forest that there are only four marsupials that can eat the leaves of the Eucalypt trees and survive. Not only can the Koala, Brushtail possum, Ringtail Possum, and Sugar Glider eat the Eucalyptus leaves, they thrive on them. The leaves are full of water; they can get their nutrients and fluids directly from the leaves. No other creation can ingest these leaves and live. He not only designed them to be able to eat eucalyptus leaves, but He also created a place where it would be in abundance for them. This is just another example of God’s infinite wisdom and care for His creation.
Each day in creation was preparation for the creation of life that God would create next. Mankind would be the last and crowning jewel of God’s creation. He would be in God’s image and would have fellowship with Him. God’s design was perfect. When God created mankind on the sixth day, everything was already in place for him to enter into a perfect world.
The Trinity made mankind in His own image. He gave them power over everything. Nothing was held back from Adam and Eve, except the one tree in their perfect garden. In the beginning, if they had obeyed, we would still have a perfect world, but they chose their own way. They, like most, place their desires above God’s desires and this choice affected mankind forevermore.
Genesis 1:26-27 “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
What about your choices. What are the effects they have on you and others? Have you had a new beginning making Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior? If so, this beginning should change what you do, where you go, and how you think. God loved His creation so much that when mankind chose his own way instead of God’s way, He made a way of recompense so that we could still have the opportunity to spend eternity with Him. However, just like Adam and Eve, we have a choice. We can accept a new beginning through faith, and change our destiny from Hell to Heaven. We can choose to live in obedience to God and receive His blessings and His presence with us continually. We can also be like Adam and Eve and choose our own way which leads to destruction. As in the beginning, we choose.
