When God Fills the Space He Creates in Genesis 1
[This is Part 3 of “God Fills the Space He Creates” – As in the previous posts, there are devotional questions at the end of the writing. I encourage you to utilize them for your own study and to interact with one another in the comment section. Thanks!]
If you’re like me, you’ve gone through life with a few unfinished projects flailing about your past.
Maybe a house renovation or a workout program you were certain would stick. Maybe you regrettably committed to watching all the Marvel movies in order or just wanted to get through that book sitting next to your bed.
Scanning through my phone, I see a number of songs I’ve started but are still in process. I consistently encounter those jumbled stanzas staring back at me as unfinished melodies.
It’s easy to get discouraged when holding on to failed or forgotten projects.
Though we might be discouraged, if we permit ourselves to consider those failures with God in mind, we can be reminded that God doesn’t fail. Unlike us, he never leaves a project unfinished and never gives up on what he has started.
That includes the work he has began for us.
God never leaves a project unfinished or a space unfilled.
That includes the work he’s began in us and for us.
We learn this from the beginning.
Looking at the first three days of creation in Genesis 1, we see an explosion of powerful craftsmanship. With a voice, God is separating and gathering. Dividing light and darkness. Separating the waters above from the waters below. Gathering the land and separating it from the sea.
Though the universe seems to arrive in three days the project remains unfinished.
But as we keep reading, we are reminded that God fills the space He creates—and fills it on purpose.
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Jason Martin 