Oh, Glorious – THIRD - Day!

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!