‘In the beginning…”
We’re made aware of this God who creates, who acts, who makes things and says they’re good. In the beginning …if we take seriously the nature of God, the understanding that we have gained through the resultant search of many before us, that God has no beginning, he just…is.
Then the creation story is somehow also about a God who wants to be involved, who doesn’t just want to sit back and wonder what it would be like to create. He actually does it.
So God, starts, he begins, he makes, he decides to act, and from the beginning we see that this God takes the initiative.
Could this be one of the building blocks to understanding what God is like? If God decides to create, to begin something, he has to give. God gives first.
GOD
GIVES
FIRST.
What would compel God to give?
What compels you to give? More often than not when we give something away, we somehow expect something in return.
Is this God’s motivation? Is God expecting something back?
When God creates he simply tells what he has created to keep on creating to multiply and expand and grow. It’s almost as though this God, receives pleasure when his creation keeps on giving. Somehow when this divine principle of giving is practiced by the Creator’s creation the Creator receives. When creation gives, the Creator receives. When you give, God receives.
AndyC...
P.s. I wouldn't blame you if you thought my writing and phrasing in this article has a Rob Bell feel to it, I read and listen way too much to his stuff :D
Oh yes and this is just a random experiment on my part to make sense of the bible it's not a hermeneutical expose, it's just random thoughts that make sense to me, I hope they make sense to you.
