NorthStar Community Daily Devotional

January 18

Scripture focus: First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss. God spoke: "Light!" And light appeared. God saw that light was good and separated light from dark. God named the light Day, he named the dark Night. It was evening, it was morning— Day One. God spoke: "Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!" God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was: he named sky the Heavens; it was evening, it was morning— Day Two. God spoke: "Separate! Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place; Land, appear!" And there it was. God named the land Earth. He named the pooled water Ocean. God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:1-10, The Message

God spoke.

God created.

God saw that it was good.

It was good…

In a world that can probably recite without notes all the things that Christians say they are against, it might be nice to take a moment and remember what is good.

He took a soup of nothingness and created through spoken word heavens and earth, light and dark, sky and water and land. And he saw that it was good.

When you think about God, do you imagine a harsh, finger-pointing God, wringing his hands, worrying about all that’s wrong on planet earth?

Or do you sit and try to imagine God peeking over the edge of eternity, laughing with great delight as snow blankets Colorado, rains beat down on Virginia and Pasadena basks in sunshine and 70 degree weather? Can you hear him? “Man, this is so cool! All this weather happening at one time.”

Some of God’s children are steaming hot and others shiver under their electric blankets. No one is too insignificant to escape God’s notice.

I know that there is a lot of hardship and headache in the world today. But there is also good stuff too. May our prayers be filled with it all! May we not get so distracted by our suffering that we lose consciousness of our salvation.

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