SATURDAY EDITORIAL

On the plane that day, I opened to the first page of the first book and started reading to myself.

In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth. And the earth as without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there as light. And God saw the light, that it was good and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament and it was so. And god called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, Let waters under the Heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He Seas: and God say that it was good. Genesis 1:1-10

I read that, and I was remembering my study of the original text of that passage. The interpreters of the English Bible wrote that God said, “Let there be light,” but the original Hebrew is more accurately translated to a simple, “Light be!”

Now, that wasn’t the creation of the sun. That came later. Original light was God releasing Himself into nothing. And out of nothing, He would hang something called the earth. So it’s God Who is light. First John 1:5 says, “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all” (NKJV). I remembered that in Him there is no darkness,”…no variableness, neither shadow of turning” (James 1:17).

I thought, God releases Himself into nothing, and out of Him, everything I see, touch, smell and eat begins to come into being. But first He has to release Himself because He is the Creator.

I’m just sitting in my window seat contemplating that. Now, I can’t even count how many times I’ve read this passage, but I decided to read it again. Suddenly the passage leaped off the page at me, and God began to talk to my mind about His creative power and how the Holy Spirit moved over the deep, doing exactly what God said to do. The Hebrew text really translates, “fluttered.” So He was fluttering there over the deep, and when God spoke, He moved and things got done! “Wow, Glory!”

Except from the Covenant by Jesse Duplantis
(to be continued)