Day 5 - Formless

The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters.

And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

{Genesis 1:2}

There are seasons of life when one can feel like there is nothing left to give. You've already done all you can. You've given it all you've got. What now? What next? You have emptied yourself of any last bit of strength in your reserve. Life feels void. Have you been there? Maybe you're there now.

I am encouraged reading God's story of the beginning. His creation, formless and empty, God started with nothing. And he made something. He did the impossible and he does it everyday...

All Things New

He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!”

--Revelation 21:5-7

One morning, I got myself up before dawn to go walking. As tired feet climbed the steep sloping road, the sun climbed a steep horizon of hills, and I felt the Lord reinforcing something he's been speaking to me through his word, "All things are being made new."

It started a few weeks ago when my daughter asked me, "Does God still create?"

Out of the mouth of babes. She asks all the right questions.

“Yes, Honey, God is always creating.”

A seed is planted in the ground, God sends rain to water the earth, he commands the sun to rise each day, the seed takes root, a shoot comes up from the soil, a tree grows, flowers bud on the stems, and fruit erupts on the tree.

A baby is born every four seconds in the world. Life unfurls in the span of a breath.