The Living Word From The Beginning - Creation 1

In the short time that I have been studying the bible I have discovered that every story has at least three applications:

• The actual story that is being told;
• The lesson that you can apply to your own life;
• And a picture of Christ.

As Christians, we tend think of the bible in two parts. Old Testament & New Testament. The Old being everything that happened before Jesus, and the New, everything after. But I have discovered that not only is Jesus written into every page of the Old Testament, He is also alive and involved in every scene.

Beginning in Genesis with the Creation of the world, we read some of the greatest most memorable lines ever written:

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

Let's go back and take a closer look at "the beginning" and see what it has to tell us about the God who loves us so desperately, and the brother who gave His life to rescue us.

In the beginning God created.... the hebrew word used here for created is bara' .This word is a verb that is only used with God as the subject because it means not only to shape and form (like a sculptor) but also to create the very raw materials used to sculpt. When a potter creates, he uses clay. He may even go so far as to make his own clay, but it consists of raw materials that are already here. God literally materialized his medium and then shaped and formed it into the multifaceted creation that we live every day. If  you think about this from the perspective of what science has taught us, it's even more amazing. Matter is the building block of everything we know. Made up of tiny rotating and orbiting particles like protons, neutrons, and electrons, all of which maintain a carefully balanced electrical charge, making them either repel or attrack other particles....somehow joining to form a chair, or tree, or human body. Matter was God's clay. Creating this small universe of tiny electrically charged particles and orchestrating their every move is enough to boggle the efforts of even the smartest man alive, but for God it was literally only the beginning.
This fact alone....the very first sentence written to us in His Word, ought to tell us something about our Father. The more science learns about the world we live in should only stand to remind us of how "big" our God is, how magically intriguing are His thoughts and ways, and how small our understanding really is.
If the creation of the whole entire world was mine to undergo I would imagine the scenery would be a lot like something from a stick figure drawing, let alone totally compiled of microscopic moving specs that have to be kept in order every second of every day or else all life and substance would cease to exist.

It makes me think of computer code. As far as my brain is concerned, HTML code mine as well be the intricate code of human DNA or some complicated 12 page mathmatical equation. Just when I think I know why there's a ":" here or a" ><" there, I look down a few more lines and see that I basically have been staring at the screen for 2 hours and still know nothing. Now, imagine if I was put in charge of a streaming database of code the size of every stitch of code on every computer in the entire world. I would have had to create it, understand it, make it produce what I wanted, amd consistently maintain it's structure 24 hours a day 7 days a week. This is only a drop in the ocean compared to the structure and maintainance that God brings to our world every moment of every day.
Remember, God made matter, He knew what He was creating. He knew the gravitational pull reguired and the exact magnetic level needed to keep everything in order.... and it was as easy and effortless for Him as uttering a word. For all His closeness and accessibility to me, He is more awesome and amazing than my mind will ever understand (atleast as long as I'm still here on earth).