Creation part 1
There are two ideas that I want to link together in this Rant series. The first one comes from Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Right from the very beginning (literally) God is established as a Creator. And not just "A" Creator, but THE Creator. The Creator of everything. Both heaven and earth. Before there was anything else, there was God. And then, at the beginning of the story, He created. Because that's who He is. That's what LOVE is. Because God is love. Love is not a destroyer. Love "destroys" our enemies by making them our friends, right? It creates friends out of enemies. I feel like a lot of the time we feel so helpless--and so hopeless--in life because we think we can't change things. We think (and I say this a lot, I'm guilty of it) it is what it is. When in reality we have this same creative power. That's the second idea I want to focus on for the next few days. Same chapter of the Bible. Genesis chapter one. All the way down to verse 26, "And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." God is the creative force of the universe. And we were created in His image and likeness. Let me say it another way, "Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world" (1 John 4:17). As He is... so are we. He is the Creator. We have that same creative power within us. Jesus understood this. He changed the world to fit His needs. He turned water into wine. Walked on water in order to get where He wanted to go. Told a storm to be still. He didn't just accept things. Didn't just shrug His shoulders and say, "It is what it is. Nothing I can do about it." No... He did something about it. He chose to listen to the voice of His Father instead of believing the lie of the world. To Jesus, it didn't matter what a situation looked like. Because He knew what it really was. And He knew how to get it from what it looked like to what it really was. He knew all about revelation. Revealing what is underneath. Uncovering what is below the surface. So much of our life is wrapped up in, or concerned with, that surface stuff. Stuff that really--in the grand scheme of things--doesn't matter. We put so much emphasis on things that really don't matter. I remember my step-mom (other mom) once saying, "If you're not going to be mad about it a year from now, do you really need to be mad about it right now?" Probably not. But we make mountains out of molehills. We get all worked about stuff. Instead of just knowing and believing that everything is under our feet. Because everything is under Jesus's feet, and He walks around WITH our feet. We were created in the image and likeness of the Creator. Jesus said all the works He did and greater works than those would we do. We have that same creative power. That same Spirit. That same love!