“In the beginning God.” (Genesis 1:1 NIV)
The four words in our opening verse do not form a hypothesis that needs to be proven. They do not forward a hunch by any means. These four words do not make up an unimportant phrase that just heading that leads you to reading the content, like any other book. Let me tell you what these four words are. They are the words that which sets the framework for the reading of every page in the written, inspired, word of God. These words serves as the impetus for studying to show we are approved, workmen that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. These words are the foundation of our faith. For to believe what we find from Genesis to Revelation, we must believe in God first, that He was in the beginning. Really our I AM God was before the beginning. There would be no beginning without God. Those that, believe, we are ready to benefit from the beautiful riches, the bountiful treasures, the borderless wisdom found in the word. We love the decrees. We embrace the direction given. We delight in the good news it contains. We discover solutions for our situations. But, first, we must believe these four words, “In the beginning God.” Once we believe these four words, we forego any tendency to try and find fault with the Scriptures or to form intellectual arguments or forward human rationale to debate the legitimacy of the content of God’s word. These four words will help head off theories that dispute the fact that the Bible is the inspired word of God, penned by men who He designated to write what He wanted written. The sacred book, It is not opinion, but it is fact from the mind of our Omniscient God. These four words, “in the beginning God,” will help counter scientific conjecture and sequester what scientists present to create doubt in our minds and possibly cause people to dismiss their faith. “In the beginning God…”
These four words, “in the beginning God”, can also ensure that our words are the right words, our behaviors are the right actions, our thoughts are trending in a righteous direction, thus we don’t end up mentally in places we should not enter. These four words, “in the beginning God,” will help us put God first, before any other alternative, including ourselves.
In life we do a variety of things without thought. How about being God conscious today and putting God first before we speak, act, decide, respond, and meet out spiritual and secular duties. Give it a try! Use these four words to your own advantage! Be blessed!
““God who made the world and all things in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live-in temples made by hands. Nor is He served by men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives all men life and breath and all things. He has made from one blood every nation of men to live on the entire face of the earth, having appointed fixed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they should seek the Lord so perhaps they might reach for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’ “Therefore since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to suppose that the Deity is like gold or silver or stone or an engraved work of art or an image of the reflection of man. God overlooked the times of ignorance, but now He commands all men everywhere to repent.” (Acts 17: 24-30 MEV)
Still committed to the climb,
Mark L. King