Today’s Scripture Reading (April 19,
2014): Genesis 1
The Bible never tries to prove
the existence of God, it assumes it. “In
the beginning God …” is the opening phrase of the Bible and from there the
books of the Bible simply explore the relationship between God and man. There are so many things that we could
get “hung up on” in the Bible. But
the real dividing point is summed up by the opening four words of the first
sentence in the first book – In the beginning God.
Creation started on the first
day and was completed on the sixth. And
on the seventh day, the Sabbath, God rested.
After the first Easter, the
early church started to talk about the eighth day. The day after God rested he started
the act of creation again. This
time it was us that he had recreated. What
had gone wrong in the original created had been paid for. Once and for all a Perfect Lamb had
been sacrificed. Now God
could recreate the love that he had intended for us all along – and the
intimate relationship between God and his creation that he had designed for us
from the very beginning.
Today, we stand at the end of
creation. Holy Saturday was
the final moments of the seventh day. Tomorrow, the eighth day dawns – the
day that God recreated his creation. God
moved one more time so that we could, once again, walk in the garden with
him. The time
approaches. Are you ready?
Tomorrow’s Scripture Reading: Mark 16
Originally Published on April
11, 2009
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