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First Day

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I kind of ran through creation really quickly. I took a little time this morning to look at Genesis 1:1. Spent a bit of time looking at the events of the first day.

The first day was really a busy one. Most of what is important to us was created on that very first day. Earth and Space were the first on the list, undefinable, but first. Space was empty and the earth was formless according to the text. Water was another big one, water came along with the creation of earth. That was all the Lord made of the creation of these things.

The creation of light and time seems to have come next on that first day. God made more to do about these things. I saw a little something about the creation of light today that really got me thinking. It might not be much but, God created the light, then He separated it from the darkness. That got me to thinking a bit. What does God intend for us to understand by separating the light from the darkness. Perhaps the light He created filled everything, there were no shadows, no dark spots. This is I suppose like the light of God’s judgement that shines into our lives, it lights everything, there is nothing hidden from it. This new light that God had made may have flowed around everything like water filling every crack and void. Here is what may have been. When God created light it was not linear such as the light of the sun. The bible says He divided the light from the darkness. Could it be that He made it linear after creating it? Linear being that it travels in one direction. As we shine a light on an object it illuminates that object and flows on past that object at it’s borders. The side of the object away from the light source is not illuminated by the light, it resides in shadow, or darkness.

I did a little searching around on the internet as that thought filled my mind. I found that research is now being done on non-linear light as the way forward in computing and communications. Interesting!

After creating light, separating it from darkness, He defined a day as being morning and evening. The days of creation were defined by God at the very first day. 24 hrs! The days of creation according to scripture are just like the days we have now. It has always been interesting to me that in these few short verses describing the creation of the world and space, light and dark, that God would take the time to define the length of time it took to do these things. He gave us the Bench Mark of time.

God is great! He is the creator of all things around us. He dictates how those things behave.

Everything that is made is His, because He made it. What God does with creation is His own decision to make.

Star of the Show

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God devoted an entire chapter of the book of Genesis to describing how He created the universe, in what order, and in how much time He created it.

He spent the very next chapter of Genesis talking about His star creation. Man! The creation of man was mentioned in chapter one, but only in passing just as everything else was mentioned. Chapter two goes into more detail about the creation of man. Detail about the surroundings in which God put man. God does this because man is the star of the show as far as creation is concerned. God describes special things that He did for man, and how He created woman to be his companion.

God had gone to the trouble of making a special place for the new couple to live. They had in this place everything they needed for a great life. There was no hard work to be done. The only job that God had given to Adam at this point was to rule over all of creation and to care for the garden.

Why had God made mankind? Why did He give them everything they needed? His desire was and is to commune with man, to fellowship with him. He want’s to talk with us, walk with us, be the main part of our lives. He want’s to be worshiped by us, to be held in His proper place, at the centre of our lives. He wants to be our big picture.

We complain today that we have no time. That was not God’s intention. He created us to spend time with Him. To enjoy Him, to talk with Him, to need Him. We get caught up in the whirl wind of our lives today where it is easy to forget that God wants our attention. Are the things we are doing evil if they pull us away from God? No, not necessarily, they are often good things. We work to eat, buy a house, clothe out bodies, ensure a good life for our children. The bad part of all of this is that we forget God, our mind’s eye is on paying the bills and we lose sight of what we were created for… to worship our creator God.

Don’t forget we are the star of creation. Jesus taught us that if we seek after God with our whole heart, He will provide the things we need. Could it be that we see the bills so large in our lives because we have our focus on them instead of the God of our lives? He want’s our attention, He asks for our attention. Lets give Him our attention and see what He does.

Creation

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Well, it seems we like to make things “isms” and such, so I think this would be a thought on creationism.

It is said by some that the world came into being in a violent bang! A bang that hurled everything around us into existence. I suppose to some degree they are correct! There was in fact great violent, and things did really explode into existence!

God alone existed before the world and Universe around us. God speaking to Himself decided to create those things that we see. The beginning in the bibles account of creation does not refer to God, He was already there, has been forever. Hard to fathom but we must simply accept this by faith. The beginning refers to the beginning of the things that we see. The bible after all is not written for God’s benefit, it is written for our benefit. So in the beginning God…

There was no light, no matter, no energy. To this point we agree with the big bang THEORISTS. Here we separate, The bang that came was not of of chance from nothing. The bang that came was God’s voice saying “let there be light.” Imagine the violent bang as light came into existence for the very first time. It’s hard to imagine, nay impossible, but have you ever been in a dark room just relaxing only to have someone turn on the light. It is an outright assault to the eyes, and even the other senses. An act of violence! A bang!

God would go on according to His word, the bible, to speak, and matter exploding into existence for the first time.

The full account of the creation is found in the very first chapter of Genesis. It is God’s commentary of what happened that week. He alone was there for the whole event, He alone has the full story. He alone set into place all matter that we see around us. He alone put the stars into their places. He was the source and director of the Big Bang that brought everything into existence. He teaches in the bible that He also keeps all of creation, which means that He keeps it together, just as He wants it to be.

He teaches us that He created us for His pleasure, and everything else was created for us. What a great God. He wants us to have all the great things that this earth has to offer. We often forget that we were not created for the world, as many would have us believe today.

God

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We all know that God exists. I have lived in the middle of the Amazon Jungle and the people I encountered there also knew that God exists. I have friends who have lived in other exotic parts of the world, they have found the same thing. There is no evidence that can prove or disprove His existence. He teaches that evidence does not convince the heart of a person who has decided to turn their back on Him.

Atheists claim that they do not believe there is a God. But they too believe. I have met a few of them who in moments of great crises they have cried out to the God they claimed did not exist. One in particular was a drift in the ocean after his boat when to the bottom leaving him helpless, alone and with no one but God. After drifting for more than a day he made a deal with the God that didn’t exist and has lived to tell his story.

God is the Creator of all things we see and all things we don’t see. He knows everything, not even our deepest secrets are hidden from Him. He is everywhere all at one time so He misses nothing. He is able to do anything He wants, He is all-powerful. He claims that the nature around us speaks about His existence and so we cannot deny Him. God Created all things for His pleasure and His pleasure alone.

God is kind, loving, and cares about all the details of our lives. He knows the number of the hairs of our head and one does not fall that He does not know about. He is a judge who will judge correctly based on weather or not we have given Him pleasure. He is incorruptible so judgement will be sure.

He created the world and keeps it until He is ready to destroy it. Regardless of what anyone else thinks we as human beings will not destroy this planet. He can’t be measured. He says He measures the oceans in the palm of His hand, and He also says He measures the universe by the span of His hand.

God is great!

Hello world!

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My name is Troy. I was born in the Bahamas and grew up between the islands of Eleuthera and New Providence. The time between the islands was split because when I was about 6 years old my parents split and ultimately divorced.

My parents divorce made me a bit of a bitter kid and also gave me excuses to do things that I should not have. I found that it was easy to manipulate people, no matter who they were by using this tragic event in my life.

After I graduating high school I went off to a tech school in FL to study electronics with the thought of coming back to Nassau to work in that field and eventually start my own business to become rich. This is where things began to change in my life in dramatic ways.

I met a family through a friend who would impact my life, forever changing it’s direction. They were christians. I had been around “christians” my whole life and I didn’t think much of them, but this family was different, they lived their everyday lives in accordance with their faith. They took me into their family and eventually I came to believe on Jesus as my Lord and Savior.

God began His work in my life and still now He is working in me to make me the Troy He’d like me to be. He has a challenge, but He knows that already. My Christian family got the idea that I needed to go to Bible School and within 6 months of becoming a believer I found myself in Word Of Life Bible Institute in Pottersville, NY. That was probably the greatest two years of my life. Those studies also set In motion conflicts within my life that I still battle with today and I suppose will be a constant conflict until the day I die. The greatest lesson learned at WOLBI is that God’s word, the Bible, stands as the ultimate authority for our lives. It alone holds the answers to life’s challenges and pleasures.

While at WOLBI we were introduced to many missions organizations, one of them being New Tribes Mission, now Ethos 360. I ended up going on to serve with New Tribes in Venezuela for a few years. In Venezuela I met my lovely bride. After being married and completing basic Spanish study we moved to the Jungle to work with an indigenous group called the Yanomamo. It is this time period that has most impacted my life as a believer. It has also impacted my cultural point of view of the bible, allowing me to realize that certain ideas I have are formed from cultural bias, and not necessarily true to God’s Word.

We left the New Tribes Mission in 2002 and moved back to the Bahamas. That has pretty much led us to this point.

My challenge to you is to always ask yourself, what does God’s word say? What does God expect of you as a follower/believer in Him? Search the Word of God to find His will for your lives, trying to lay aside those things that are not prescribed by God, and walking with Him in truth and simplicity.