So here is what I thought I had kinda figured out this morning as I began reading in Genesis 1 this morning. Verse 2 says:
“The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”
I was kinda picturing some kind of Van Gogh painting where everything is very dark and there’s land and the waters right there as a haze-like figure floats over the waters. Then, I read verse 6-8:
“And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” 7 And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. 8 And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.”
I don’t know what “separate the waters from the waters” means. Where’s the second water? Then, it hit me. The start of verse 2 says, “he earth was without form and void.” Therefore, when it says earth, I can’t picture the big round object that I am used to. Which completely blows my visual out of the water. No pun intended…
I love it when God just keeps getting bigger and bigger than I ever thought. And what’s with Him saying, “And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness” in verse 3? He’s God. Of course it’s good. I think he knows that, but I don’t think it was a question if it would be good or not. He is delighting in Himself and His greatness. I think I got a hint of what the word “awesome” really means. Wow…
