In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
If you have spent any time in Sunday school as a child, you have probably heard the story of creation several times. But we overlook an important aspect of God when we skim over the account. God is clearly in control and clearly at work. The earth was formless and empty; it was void, barren and plain. Darkness was obviously a predominate feature. Order had yet to enter into the picture, so I would imagine there was an ample amount of chaos. Yet the glimmering hope is the Holy Spirit hovering over the waters.
How does this apply to you and to me? Aside from the obvious, that we live on earth and benefit directly from God's creation. Nowhere in the account of creation will you find that God stopped creating, He stopped working. On the seventh day, God rested and saw that everything He had made was good. In fact, it was very good, indeed! But the entire rest of the Bible is an account of the things that God created or raised up.
Before I was saved, my life could be described using adjectives like formless, empty, void and barren. My heart, the surface of the deep, was most certainly chaotic. But, God filled me with His love, His righteousness and His peace. I am no longer formless, for I am a reflection of God, the Creator. I am no longer empty; His love fills me to overflowing. So full is the love of God that it pours out of my life and into the lives of others. My life was barren and plain; now my life is a beautiful and healthy tree, with roots in Jesus and branches that stretch out to protect my family and fruit that are the good works I produce in love. And none of these things can be described as plain!
God is in the transformation business. He hasn't stopped working in us. God's plan was always for this transformation of our hearts from chaos and darkness to peace and light through Him. This isn't something that we can do for ourselves, nor is it something another human can do for us. It is a private and quite miraculous matter between God and His child. What in your life needs transformation today? Where is the chaos and the darkness? You were not intended to live within that. If it were so, then God would have declared it good. But He didn't. He transformed the earth. Now let Him transform your world.
Holy Father, You are God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth. You alone hold the power to transform my darkness, my emptiness into a reflection of Your goodness. You alone know the depths of my heart, the longings of my soul. Fill me, Lord, with Your goodness, Your peace and deliver me from darkness and emptiness. I come boldly before You because You have promised that You will give what I ask within Your will. I call upon Your name for deliverance. In the loving and powerful name of Jesus, Amen.
