In The Beginning...

Well, it started with a challenge. Viljar, one of my fellow interns, has challenged a few of the kids who know Christ from our last camp in Kuressaare to read the whole bible by January 1st. Well, after talking to Henry I decided that I would join in on the challenge. Well, I am sitting here reading Genesis One. I have discovered that I am probably not going to make it by the deadline but only because I want to really go into depth as I am going through the chapters. I have two different versions opened up on my computer and one of Arthur Pink's books opened as well. I have been spending all day reading about it.

Pink spends a good bit of time talking about the first two verses of the bible and how foreshadowing is already in the first two verses in relation to the fall of man and sin. Verse two said the earth is formless and empty in darkness however, "the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters".

So I read Pink's insight and kept reading the first chapter. I read the chapter in both NIV and in a Literal Hebrew translation.

As I was reading I noticed that "And there was evening and there was morning" is repeated after each of God's additions to the world. Something that really stood out to me was the fact that morning is always after evening. Morning here can refer to light and evening can refer to darkness. This makes it so that light comes after darkness. Light always prevails even after darkness. Because of the fact that it is repeated it is like God really wants us to remember that; He wants it to sink in that He, the light, always prevails. Then I was reminded of the end of Psalm 30:5 that says joy comes in the morning.

So that was my short revelation that is really quite simple but I really enjoyed the simplicity of such a strong message. My conclusion is that there is always joy to look forward to in Christ with each new day.