The First Day:
[Gen 1:1-2 KJV] 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was 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. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
When the scriptures say, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, the word create there includes the meaning that implies, He “carved out” the heavens and the earth. What did He carve the heavens and the earth out of? Out of the deep. Out of a field of potential before Him that was initially without form and void. Quantum theorists surmise that the 3 dimensional universe sprang into existence in what they call a “big bang”. They understand that this coming into existence had to originate from somewhere. What Genesis calls “the deep”, scientists call the field of all possibilities. It has been proven that at a quantum level, this field responds, in a creative way, to being observed. This is called the Copenhagen effect, that says a quantum particle exists in all places at once until it is observed, and then it blinks into existence. Once observed, it transforms, by virtue of an existing observation, from a probability wave to an existent particle. Further, to the chagrin of these logical minds, they have determined that not only does the wave become a particle once observed, but that it actually will then behave in a manner that the observer anticipates and expects it to behave.
The Spirit of God Moved on the Face of the Deep:
On the first day, God moved or brooded over the deep or the void – that which had yet to reflect His purpose and potential. The original word here means that God brooded over the deep as a hen broods over its young. The word also means “to cherish young” as an eagle cherishes its chicks. In other words, this was not a dispassionate act. God was then, as He is now – the personification of love according to 1 John 4:8 – and in love He was acting. Many people try to “faith” things into existence that are born, not of love, but of selfishness. Napoleon Hill in his classic “Think and Grow Rich”, taught that it was not enough to simply believe and declare that you will be wealthy – for that is a selfish goal. He taught rather that a declaration made, only became creative when it was born of altruistic passion to serve others, and then the belief took on a dynamism that would transform any life.
[Pro 4:23 KJV] 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.
Where did life and creation originate? In the heart of God. All of creation issued forth out of the Spirit of God that was hovering, creatively, over the deep, and from that, took the outward circumstance and conformed it to His inward reality, and the earth was brought forth in all of its potentiality. You likewise are made in God’s image. Your outward circumstance originates and is sustained and maintained according to Proverbs 4:23, within your own inner man. Like it or not, if you are enduring what is not to your taste in life, the answer originates, not in some cosmic twist of fate that has denied you what you long for, but actually from within your person, your own inner man. That contaminated issue came forth, empowered with the tenterhooks of your own passions, to lay hold on what was outwardly, and form and fashion it from its potential state, into a state reflecting what is in your own heart. In other words, if you don’t like what is in your life, then change what is in your heart. Your heart – what is in your heart in abundance, will get out of your mouth and into the earth and WILL inexorably shape and control your environment. This is not a mere possibility, it is an inviolate manifestation that establishes the fact that you are made in the image of God, and as He created that which He desired from within Himself, so what you are experiencing originated from within your own person. Therein lies both the dilemma of man and the path of progress, if you will choose to learn the avenue by which you exit from the confinement of sinful man’s thoughts and the world they create, and adopt the mind of the Spirit and the limitless life of potential it will create – all from within your own heart and spirit, you will walk out the plan of God for your life.
In verse 2, God said “let there be light” and there was light. How could God create light? Because He WAS and still is LIGHT:
[1Jo 1:5 KJV] 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
In other words, when God spoke His words, He arrested the deep and conformed it to who and what He was. Likewise, in Matt. 5:14, Jesus said, you are the light of the world. In this sense, Jesus is leading us to believe that at some existential level, we ARE what God is. He took the outward circumstances and not only conformed it by His words to what was IN Him – He took WHO He was and compelled, by the power of His word. The deep responded and was formed and fashioned into that which reflected His character. This is what is in Him, establishing the heavens and the earth, and this is what is IN YOU, establishing your spiritual, relational and material environment. If you don’t like what you see, the path of change comes by dealing with YOURSELF and what is in you, before addressing the outward. If you can’t discern yourself, then you will never appropriately or accurately discern your situation fully enough to have any hope of change.
We see then that on the first day, God most significantly did the following:
- Moved upon the face of the deep.
- He spoke and conformed the deep – an outward environment, compelling it by His words to conform, to come to parity to the inward atmosphere of who He was. Out of His heart came the issues of life and the cosmos was created.
Likewise, you are to emulate God, according to Eph. 5:1, doing in your life what He did in the recorded past.
- Moving on the face of your deep – the outward circumstances.
- Speaking and conforming the deep – your outward environment, compelling it, by your faith filled words, to come to parity to the inward atmosphere of who you are in Christ inwardly. This is what Jesus meant when He said “on earth as it is in heaven. In your outward circumstance, as it is in heaven (your inward reality in Christ – the kingdom is in you).
If you are looking out on your life and all you see is unrealized potential, then you are in day one of God’s process and this is your prerogative. To do what He would do, were He in your position. We know what He would do, for we have a record of what He did do. He moved out, by His Spirit, over that deep – that unrealized potential and fully discerned it, fixed His determination upon it and compelled it to come to parity with the inward reality of who He was at that moment. Go and do thou likewise
