Today’s Word from Pastor Jim…
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” Genesis 1:1
It is the earliest confession of faith among our human ancestors. It is not a scientific explanation. It speaks of intention. God created with intention. Meaning that creation and the humans that would follow were not an accident. It is the earliest confession of faith. We are not alone. There is a higher power. In the beginning God created. We know very little about God, very little has been revealed to us. Mere creatures, we have a hard time understanding the opposite sex much less an eternal being, the Master of the Universe.
There are those who would maintain that there is no God, that this confession is without grounds, foolhardy even. In my mind it takes a lot more blind faith to believe that the diverse creation of the universe was little more than a cosmic accident.
Consider for a moment the words of perhaps the greatest mind of our time. Stephen Hawking, the British theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, cosmologist and science communicator said: “If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million, million, it would have re-collapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for the stars and planets to form.”
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. It is the earliest confession of faith. This confession was never meant to be science, it was meant to inspire wonder, and to assure us that we are not alone. In your beginning God created you. God created you with intention. God created you in the image of God, unique in all of human history.
May God grant us peace, wonder, humility, and gratitude. Gratitude for each day, each breath, each sunrise and each sunset, for the privilege of this time on earth. Do not be afraid to live and do not be afraid to die. For the earliest confession of faith reminds us that we are not alone. “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil for thou art with me.” That is enough for me.
One beggar, telling another beggar where to find bread, I am your,
Pastor Jim
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