Creation part 3
"And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day" (Genesis 1:31). God doesn't make mistakes. He created the heaven and the earth and it was very good. The heaven is the mind and the eath is the body. He created YOU and you are very good! And then, because the creation--because YOU--were dark and void and without form God spoke and filled that dark void with light. He gave us form. He made us in His image and then, on the cross, He conformed us to His image. He shined His glorious light so that we could see things clearly. So that we could stop looking at ourselves as inferior, or bad, or evil, or sinners, and we could see ourselves as we truly are. We could see GOD as HE truly is. God is love. That's what the light of the world--that Jesus is, and that we are--reveals. It doesn't reveal something evil that needs to be good. Jesus did NOT come to make "bad people" good. He came to make dead people alive. And this is how we know that we have passed from death into life: That we love one another. Think about it like this: a seed can only produce after it's own kind, right? An apple seed can only produce apples, right? Well in the same way a God who is love can only produce--or create--love. I think another myth about creation is that God spoke the world into exsistence out of nothing. First of all, as we saw a couple days ago, God didn't speak the world into creation at all. Genesis 1:1 simply tell us that He created it. It wasn't until Genesis 1:3 that God spoke. And when He spoke He said what He always says. He said, "Let there be light." He said the Word (Jesus, love). So He didn't speak the world into existence. And He didn't create it out of nothing either. He created it out of Himself. Colossians 1:17 states, "And he is before all things, and by him all things consist." Before anything was, God is. He is the I AM. He will be whatever He will be. And what He chose to be, in the beginning, was the heaven and the earth. You can't make something out of nothing. Everything comes from the source. God is the source. Love is the source. By Him ALL things consist. Everything in creation is merely an extension of God. An extension of love. Because why did God create everything? Why did He create anything? So that love could have an expression. That's why, "For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God" (Romans 8:19). All of creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. Not just people, but EVERYTHING. Because love is everywhere, and love IS everything. Sometimes it's just too dark to tell. And that's where we come in. That's what "the manifestation" is! It's us knowing and believing that we are loved and that we are love! It's us knowing and believing that the light shines in us and out of us. That's why we were created: To be loved and to love one another with that same love. To receive it and release it. Not to create something new, but to make all things new through love! Not to change things, but to reveal things as they really are!