It is the FIRST day of 2015 –
a NEW year – a new BEGINNING – a FRESH start! I am so thankful my Lord’s
mercies are new EVERY morning; not just New Year’s – yet still, a new year
holds optimism, expectations, and excitement.
Hubby and I started reading
Genesis today – how fitting since the title itself means, “Beginnings” - my prayer
is to learn something new of God every day and to not take lightly that
Almighty God, the Creator of the Universe, my Redeeming Savior wants to reveal
Himself…..to me…..to you….every day…...of every year.
As we were reading the
creation story, my husband mentioned the band “Third Day” and how he figured
they chose their name referring to Christ rising from the dead on the third day and not necessarily the
third day recorded in Genesis 1:9-10.
I began to wonder if there
was a correlation between these two ‘third days’…….
Genesis 1:2 says ‘the Spirit
of God was hovering over the face of the waters.’ – Darkness may have been on the face of the deep; but the Spirit
of God was hovering over the face of
the waters; true to the saying ‘whatever is over my head, is under His feet’
Amen! This verse reminded me of Jesus quoting Isaiah 61:1-2a in Luke 4:18-19,
saying ‘The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me; because the Lord has anointed Me
to preach good tidings unto the meek; He has sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the
prison to them that are bound’……sounds like a whole lot of darkness going on,
but just as the light was revealed on day 1 of creation, the true Light came to
dwell among us (John 1:1-14) and ‘to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.’.
I wrote about the fall of
Satan in a previous blog post, “Cast Down…..”, and how day 2 is the only day
not recorded as ‘good’ in the creation process. I will save going thru the
creation of day 2 recorded in Genesis 1:6-8, how Satan is referred to as the ‘prince
of the power of the air’ in Ephesians 2:2, and the references to the ‘rulers of
darkness’ in Ephesians 6:12 since they are all referenced there….. Darkness – first mentioned in Genesis
1:2 - looms again – over all the
earth - after Jesus yields His spirit upon the cross and dies (Luke 23:44).
Satan was ‘cast down’ and
Jesus came down….willingly….‘no one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my
own accord.’ (John 10:18) All hope may have seemed lost……but then…….on the
Third Day…..
Land, bodies of water, grass,
herb, fruit…..LIFE…..begins on day 3……and it was GOOD (Genesis 1:9-13)…...JESUS…...the
Way, the Truth, and the LIFE…..the firstborn from the dead…..was buried, raised
from the dead on the THIRD day, and it PLEASED the Father that in Him should
all fullness dwell……IT IS VERY GOOD!
