What can God do with nothing … everything. A blank canvas is no problem for our God. And neither is a messy, jacked up, torn up canvas. Hey, God can wipe that clean in an instant.
The story of creation shows God’s power to create from nothing. It shows his vision in darkness. It reveals his sovereignty over emptiness and his desire for abundance.
Where is there emptiness in your life? God brings abundance there. Where is there a total loss of hope in your life? God’s vision is overflowing with hope there. You don’t see it yet, but God sure does. God knows exactly how he will take all that is missing and create more than you could ever ask, think, or imagine. He requires absolutely nothing to start with. He doesn’t need a spark, he makes the fire. He doesn’t need a foundation, he is the foundation. He doesn’t need a week’s worth of progress first, he holds the miraculous power to change it all with one word.
Psalm 51:10 MSG, “God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.”
Last Friday, we began studying what a Genesis week might look like in our own lives. A time of creation. A time of new life growing when there has been nothing but void before. In episode #1526 ‘Your Genesis Week’, we went back to Genesis chapter 1, the very beginning of everything, and we began studying the week of creation. The times when God spoke into nothing, and it was. It was, solely because God command it to be. Not because it made sense. Not because it had ever been before. Not because it was natural. Certainly not because it was probable or expected. It all became because God spoke it, and it was.
I assure you, God still holds that power. He can still speak something that is totally un-probable and completely unexpected, and it will be. He can still do in a single moment what we could never do in a million lifetimes. He can take nothing and create anything, everything, and then more things.
So what the story of creation tells us is, there’s still hope for us. There’s hope for those things that are too far gone. There’s hope for the things that have never been before. There’s hope for all that has been dismissed as impossible. All that’s needed here for everything to change is one word from God. A fresh start is possible in you. A new passion is rising in you. A stirred up joy, a revived dream, a calling to a purpose you dismissed yourself from.
Where there is nothing but chaos in your life, God can shape a Genesis week. He can create. He can form. He can restore. He can grow. He can radically transform.
Taking the 7 days of creation, we’ve already seen the first 4.
We know God can bring light where there has been nothing but darkness. He can show us things we have never seen before. He can bring clarity to the confusion. With his light, he can flush out the enemy from the dark corners in our mind.We know he can bring balance where we are one big mess. He can create healthy cycles in our life of giving and receiving and smooth our rigid edges help us to flow in life without stress or strifeWe know he can rescue us from our overwhelm and provide a solid foundation on which we can stand. He will drive back the waters and show us the shore. He will help us to grow and thrive. Yes, thrive, not just survive.We know that God is guiding us. He created all of these magically glowing formations in the sky for a purpose. First, so that we would know him. So that we would be in awe of him. But also to create seasons in our life and guide us in using those seasons to live according to his good plan.But God wasn’t finished then, and he’s not finished now. He still had more creating to do. There was still more he wanted to do. More he wanted to give us. More he wanted to do in us, for us, and through us. So, after God created light, after he created the sky, after he formed the land, and after he formed the 200 billion trillion stars, he came to day 5. Day 5 of the Genesis week.
On this day, God filled the seas with every living thing and the skies with flying birds. Oh wasn’t he creative. To form the seahorse, the octopus, the hummingbird and the eagle, all in one day. He didn’t just create a little, he created an abundance. An overflowing of more than our minds could ever imagine. And this is what God is doing in your life right now. He’s creating and he’s filling. Things you have never seen before are forming. Beautiful things. Unique things. Crazy awesome things. Huge massive things and tiny miraculous things. He’s filling your life, my sister. Filling your soul to overflowing.
And he’s giving you wings to soar. Lifting you up to higher levels than you’ve ever gone before. Showing you new perspectives on this life you’ve been living at surface level all this time. But now, God is creating change in you.
But God wasn’t finished. He continued to create. He saved his best for his final day of creation.
On day 6, God filled the Earth with every wild creature. He made them all. So unique, so different, so naturally good at thriving in their environment to do what they were created to do. He gave each creature what they would need, equipping them for their purposes. Oh yes, he’s done the same for you. He’s equipped you. He’s created within you all you need to thrive in this life.
But God had more intended for this big day of the Genesis week. There was more life to bring to earth, and now he was ready to create his masterpiece. He created man and woman in his image. He made us, to reflect him. Yes, we are created to reflect him. That is our capacity. That is our purpose. We hold God’s power. We bare his image.
This life you have been given is not an accident. It’s all under the great design of the master designer. And he says, “You are my masterpiece. You are the completion of my greatest work. Now, I can rest.”
And that is what God did on day 7. He rested. He looked at all he had done and he declared it was good. Ridiculously good. Did you know God looks at you, yes you, even in your chaos, even in your mess, even in your wandering, and he says YOU ARE GOOD!
You need to know that. You are good. You are his divine creation and he loves what he made in you. He wanted you, that’s why he made you. And he wanted you, the real you, the authentic you, just the way he made you and you don’t need to hide that. He simply wants you to reveal the best that’s in you and grow to become who he created you to be.
Why did God rest? God doesn’t get tired. God doesn’t need time to recuperate. But, he knew we would. And this Genesis week is our example. He rested to show us what we would need. He rested to show us how to slow down and savor where we are now. And God made this day of rest holy. He set it apart as not only rest for our bodies, but rest for our souls. A time to connect. A time to worship. Not because he needed it, but because we would.
Have you rested? Have you worshiped? Have you connected? Have you followed his example?
One week. All God created, all he envisioned being brought to life, all of this from absolutely nothing, he did it in a week. The all-powerful God spoke into existence where there was nothing but darkness over the water. It was the Genesis week.
And again, Psalm 51:10 MSG leads us in a prayer, “God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.”
Lord, do in my life what only you can do. Take what isn’t enough. Take what is a total mess. Take what is too far gone. Take what is way too late. Take what I have dismissed. Take what I have given up on. Take what I’m frustrated with. Take what I don’t understand. Take it, and make a fresh start. Shape a genesis week out of this. I surrender it all to you, and I trust you to do what only you can do.
And hear God, the creator of the Universe, the one who personally knit you together in your mother’s womb with tremendous design and purpose say to you today, “You are good. I like what I created in you!”
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