IN THE BEGINNING
If there is one thing that both science and religion can seem to agree on, it’s that both time and matter had a beginning. Then what was before? Just emptiness everywhere?
Can you picture what it would be like for someone to be suspended in such a void? Like a snowflake in the Antarctica, or a grain of sand on the Sahara, without significance whatsoever. Just lost in the void.
We really don’t want to feel lost or insignificant and so we build walls and create for ourselves cells in which we live. These may be made up of our jobs or careers, our family and friends, our money and possessions, our training and wisdom, our religious practices, our entertainment and sports and whatever else makes us feel secure and protected. And if that’s not enough, well, there’s always alcohol and other drugs.
But at times these walls we’ve built up crumble and once again we’re exposed to that great void that still exists outside our secure area. We may lose our jobs as during this pandemic, or retire from an all consuming career. Perhaps our money runs out or we lose our possessions, what we know doesn’t seem to be true anymore or our beliefs get challenged. Or worse, we lose family members or friends as many did just a few weeks ago.
When such happens, that void is waiting there along with the anxiety, depression, fear, anger, worry, etc., that it holds. When that blackness appears, we ask the usual questions; Where was God? Why does He allow such things to happen?
But God is always there. He is an “ever present help” in times of trouble [Psalm 46:1 NIV]. However, He’s rarely part of our secure area any more so the question really is; why do we not include God within our walls before trouble develops and our walls start to break?
A better relationship with God on regular basis might make that void seem much less ominous if we do have to face it.
After all, that may be why the Bible doesn’t say: “In the Beginning”.
But “In the beginning, God”
Perhaps that’s just something we should thing about.
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