And God said…
Genesis 1:3
The three most important words for us to know, “And God said…” Something so simple, something so easily taken for granted, skimmed over in devotional times in the midst of the schedule of daily life and yet when we begin to scratch the surface of the statement, we find profound truth.
In the beginning, the earth was without form and void before God spoke, and darkness covered the surface of the deep. Without form also means something chaotic. Void means something empty. But when God speaks, he brings forth things that are declared by him to be good, and he separates them and puts them in their proper order. He puts an end to the chaotic void.
In the absence of God’s word there is a chaotic, formless, empty, dark, void. Even today, when the time given to intaking God’s word gets sidelined by the various other pressures of life, we will experience that chaotic, formless, emptiness in one way or another. We have been created by the word of God, by the very breath that comes from his mouth, how then can we be sustained by anyone or anything else?
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
(John 1:14)
May we find in this season at NSCF a renewed dedication to the Word of God. The Word that is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. When your soul feels chaotic and darkened by the challenges and labours of life as a sojourner through the earth, we are sustained only by the fact that God said…
Pastor Scott