A New Beginning
Google Images Empty. Dark. Then God went to work and changed it all. Genesis 1 records how everything began, how a Creator took what was empty and dark and made it into something beautiful and good. The Bible is a book of redemption, of restoration, of reconciliation. Right from its first chapter that story is told: emptiness can be filled—with God; darkness can become light—because of God. “ In the beginning God created... ” (Genesis 1:1). The beauty that God created will be spoiled and soiled, sullied and sacrificed but the lesson remains: With God, because of God, emptiness can be filled and darkness can become light. John 1:14 tells us: “ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word as with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life and that life was the light of men, The light shines in darkness... ” Jesus was there, from the beginning, on a mission to fill emp...