Just four words that separates the “nothingness” from the “here and now”.   God made a time and space for us to live in.  God himself is outside of this realm that he made for us, and yet he purposefully and lovingly created this universe for us to enjoy… and in the beginning it was all good.  All of creation, the sky, earth, trees, animals, and plants were good.  And Mankind was very good, as He breathed an eternal living soul into each of us.  

We’ve been studying Genesis in our Sunday School class this year… and have made it through one whole chapter in 5 weeks… I’ve been trying to also slow my own learning down and thinking more deeply this year.  If the Bible didn’t have Genesis 1… we’d always be thinking, “Yes, but what about before that… what happened then, before?”  I Praise the Lord that He didn’t leave us wondering, because God tells us that He was there and he started everything for all of us… and it was all good!  Only after man’s rebellion against God did sin enter the world and everything was suddenly, “not good”.  

The whole concept of God speaking, creating, then blessing (or adoring) his creation, was the way He chose to do it.  We do the same thing… we think or say something, we then act on it until completion, then rest in the satisfaction of a job well done.  This pattern was put into our hearts by God… the part of being “made in His image”.  

What are you thinking or saying this year?  What are your goals that you want to act on?  What are you reflecting on that you just finished, and are blessing/adoring? 

Let’s take the time to reflect on what God has done for us this year of 2012.  In our own “space and time” that God gave each of us, let us press on ahead for His Glory, not dwelling in the past, but living out the full gospel  day by day, and even hour by hour.