The Creative Word and Spiritual Formation
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Form - tohuw (to’-hoo); from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
Void - bohuw (bo’-hoo); (meaning to be empty); a vacuity which is the absence of matter an undistinguishable ruin: emptiness
Darkness- choshek ; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness: night, obscurity.
In vs. 2 god moved upon the face of the deep
Then in vs. 3 comes the creative word
The spirit moves on the individual but it is the words of god that brings form out of chaos
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In gen 15 the scripture says that Abraham 1st experiences the smoking furnace and a burning lamp a product of the spirit moving then the lord spoke his covenant
At Sinai the people experience a move of gods spirit and then the word is written on tablets
On the day of Pentecost 1st the spirit moves on them then speaks through them
Gods goal is to make us into something not just for us to feel him and this comes by his world forming word
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.[ he is the underlying principle]
he is why we are here why we were even born so if he is the underlying principle or reason I am here
I must hear his word or his purpose for my life in order to be really alive and fulfilled
God is the word in the beginning was the word or thought or purpose or logos and the word was god jn 1
The enemies #1 job is to downplay frustrate or get us to doubt the word
It started way back with adam and eve
He wants us to believe that there is a better life apart from gods word thought direction purpose
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
This is what a real devil does serpent nachash (naw-khash’); to hiss, i.e. whisper a (magic) spell; to prognosticate: or foretell the future when we r doing good he says future is bad vice versa
When we entertain the wrong voices it brings our mind under a spell and things become cloudy of what or who is right or wrong
The enemy tried to make eve think that there was just as good a life even if she disobeyed the word just a little
Now the enmies plan was to break the communion that he once enjoyed
And that is what happened adam and eve hid themselves from the prescence
Gen 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Whenever we are trying to get away from his prescence whether it is fear boredom or disgust or not feeling ,the enemy has sold us on the belief in an alternate way. And there can be no spiritual formation
And there will be no
Form - tohuw (to’-hoo); from an unused root meaning to lie waste; a desolation (of surface), i.e. desert; figuratively, a worthless thing; adverbially, in vain: confusion, empty place, without form, nothing, (thing of) nought, vain, vanity, waste, wilderness.
Void - bohuw (bo’-hoo); (meaning to be empty); a vacuity which is the absence of matter an undistinguishable ruin: emptiness
Darkness- choshek ; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness: night, obscurity.
genesis chapter 1 reveals the process by which formation takes place.
From formless empty shapelessness the process of formation begins with the moving of the spirit of god and continues with him speaking a creative word.
And god said let there be light and there was light gen 1:3
Whenever god moves on us it is not just for us to feel him, but it is for him to speak creatively and give direction and purpose
Eph 1:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Ps 107:23-30
23 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
24 These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
25 For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
29 He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
30 Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
