January 11 order - Recap of Part 1 to the Bible meta narrative

 

January 11

 

Ok, today is just a quick recap. Tomorrow we start a new chapter of this conversation. 

 

God began creation in the middle of the formless, empty, darkness. This was a darkness so deep and so bold, that it could be felt. It consumed all things and allowed no life to survive. 

 

Yet the Spirit of God flowed right into the middle of this darkness and began to create life. 

 

Yet He did it, through wisdom, or order. 

 

When all things came together they were good, because they had a divine order and purpose to them. 

 

So what happens when we break the created order and do things our own way? 

 

Destruction and chaos. 

 

We see this in Adam and Eve’s story. 

 

Listen to what Genesis 3:13-19 say

 

So the Lord God said to the serpent, “because you have done this, 

 

Cursed are you above all livestock 

And all the wild animals

You will crawl on your belly 

And you will eat dust

All the day so furor life

And I will put enmity 

Between you and the woman, 

And between your offspring and hers;

He will crush your head,

And you will strike his heel. 

 

To the woman he said, 

 

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;

With painful labor you will give birth to children.

Your desire will be for your husband, 

And he will rule over you.” 

 

To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat form it,’

 

Cursed is the ground because of you;

Through painful toil you will eat food from it

All the days of your life.

It will produce thorns and thistles for you, 

And you will eat the plants of the field. 

By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food

Until you return to the ground, 

Since form it you were taken;

For dust you are

And to dust you will return.”

 

This was God’s prescriptive and descriptive explanation. The parts that are descriptive, are a result of what was about to happen now that they let chaos back into the created order. This darkness that was trying to consume all things was now unleashed back into creation. And since then it has been doing the same thing it has always done - try to consume all things. This isn’t what God decided beaus of their disobedience. This is what resulted from their disobedience. They now carry the effects of their sin. The good of creation was now ruined by the embrace of evil. 

 

But don’t worry, God had a plan for that too. 

 

But that’s part three. . . 

 

What do I mean? 

 

I believe the Bible has four main parts to its meta narrative. 

 

Everything we have discussed over the past 10 days is part one. 

 

To sum it up, it goes like this - 

 

God created all things with order by speaking life into the middle of the chaos. And if we were to label and summarize this a little more, the darkness that existed before creation consumes all things. But God spoke light and life into the middle of the darkness. He did this with a created order that keeps the darkness separated from the light. His plan - all things thrive and multiply inside the created order of wisdom. 

 

So while part one shows us the wisdom of God and the order the designed all things in, Part 2 - which we will start tomorrow - shows us our human nature that is drawn to the darkness. . . . 

 

But for now, that’s all the time that we have for today, I love you and God bless!