Genesis 1
Written in Genesis.
And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
— Genesis 1:6.
In the very first chapter of our Bible, I’m fascinated by two things. The first is the “clay” God was working with; what our world was before it was anything at all. I wouldn’t have imagined it started as a dark, chaotic ocean (I suppose a modern reader would just imagine a black void), but the ocean is its own kind of “nothingness”.
…and God saw that it was good.
The second is just how much God seems to enjoy doing this. There’s a kind of divine glee present here, as if the act of creation is pleasing to Him. I find that oddly comforting, that all of this was done as an act of joy more than anything else. It was joy that brought me to the church, and I hope it’s that same goodness that carries me through the Bible.