His Awesome Presence

(Gen 1:31) And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. (Gen 1:12) And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. After the Lord completed His wondrous creation, here we see him at a moment where he sees everything that He has crafted and brought to existence and life. And he sees that it was very good! Our God is one who rejoices in His creation - Like a master craftsman, he takes pleasure in His handiwork. We see two kinds of pleasure or approval here from God. 1.     God sees all of His creation - Beholds it in His eyes - and sees that it is good indeed. Everything that the lord creates in it's initial form is very Good. We are created in a perfect manner - (even when we have inborn infirmities, we can rejoice in the fact that we are fearfully and wonderfully made). 2.     G...

(Gen 1:1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Creation - In the beginning   We love beginnings and tend to cherish the times and seasons where many things began in our lives! The word of God begins rightly with a brief, (over)simplified account of how Creation happened. In those few words of Gen 1:1, the lord establishes that He existed in the beginning, that there was a moment of creation for all of earths and heavens and that He was the creator and his word had the infinite power to create all these from nothing. (john 1:1-3 confirms this was Jesus himself). You don’t need anyone to give you a scale of the earth/ sun/ stars/ milky way/ galaxies etc. This is one of those “Selah” moments where we pause and consider the power of God as displayed through his creation. The most learned scientist cannot claim to understand that point of the past where all that we see was created so simply by our God! There are so many who reject creation and God just be...