In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and voice, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said…..
Genesis 1:1-3
We saw last week another beginning from the Gospel of John 1:1-2, which read ~
In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
Our Scriptures today, found in Genesis, show us how all things created by God are created when God is present, His Spirit is hovering, and the word is spoken. From John's gospel, we see the word is personified as ‘He’ with verse fourteen expounding that His word was made flesh. We now see Jesus personified as the word of God.
Jesus declares through his ministry,
I only do what I see my Father doing. John 5:19
For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak. John 12:49
This is the beginning of all creative work. It is the way our Father-God works. It is the way Jesus worked, and it is the way we are given to work.
Jesus did say, ‘I will build my church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it’. Matthew 16:18,
Psalm 127:1 reminds us that unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain.
Every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of all things, Hebrews 3:4.
I wonder why we often seem to lose sight of this as we put our hands to the work assigned. We work with Him. He is the master architect. He holds the blueprint we work from. And all creative work begins with God, the Spirit, and the Word being spoken. The agreement between these three must always be present before creation can occur.
Jesus engaged in ministry under the authority of the Father, full of the Holy Spirit. From John 16:13-14 Jesus tells us the Holy Spirit does not speak on his own authority either, but whatever he hears, he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
In our lives, we don’t get to say ‘Holy Spirit’ without our words finding agreement with the written word.
Once again, as we see from the two beginnings recorded in Genesis and John, this place of absolute unity within the Godhead. All things by Him, through Him, for Him, with the Spirit hovering, His word spoken, is the beginning of all His creative works.
Whatever we have put our hands and voices towards, must find its origins in the same unity.
It’s always an honest spiritual and mental exercise to look at the works of our hands, making sure our works and words are being done with him, holding His plan, with His spirit breathing upon them, standing on a solid foundation of His word confident that it withstands the gates of hell and the storms of life.