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Prayer

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever, amen. I pray, O Lord, that you feed my soul as I read your word now. Please purify and sanctify my heart, unite my heart that I may fear your name. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.

Reading

Genesis 2:4.

“These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.”

Meditation

As we continue on in our study of Genesis 2, we quickly find that something significant changes from chapter one. In chapter one we see the almighty Creator making the world. The Hebrew uses the term “Eloheem”. In chapter two this changes, and the Hebrew begins to use the name: “Yahweh Eloheem” of God. In the common English translations it is often rendered: “LORD God”, just as we find it in verse four. To the ancient Hebrew reader, this difference would have actually conveyed something very significant. LORD God was the familiar, covenant name by which Israel knew their God. Chapters one and two taken together, therefore, would have made one thing abundantly clear to Israel. It would have shown them very clearly that their God, Yahweh Eloheem, was in fact the Creator of the universe.

Chapter two of Genesis shows us as the people of God that our God is, in fact, the supreme Maker of heaven and earth. We need to realise this too. From a New Covenant perspective, we can say more as we actually realise that Christ, our Lord, is the Creator of the world. Colossians 1:16 shows this explicitly: “by him (Christ) all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.” Christ is the Creator of the world. God is the Author of your life, and God has revealed himself through Christ. It is not Allah who made the worlds. We do not originate from a pantheistic nirvana. It was Christ, the Son of God, who formed the rolling spheres above us.

Be ye doers of the word…

Do you ever feel like the ground has fallen out from under you? Like you’re tumbling? Like something has happened that was never supposed to happen? We all know bad things happen, but somehow when things are going well we kind of think they won’t happen to us. But then they do, and you find yourself sitting in a hole so dark that you never thought there could be a darkness like this. The truth of the matter is that things did go wrong. Paradise was lost, and the world in which we now live has much darkness. There are many trials, tribulations, dangers, toils, and snares. But one thing hasn’t changed, he’s got the whole world in his hands. Christ is still the author. The application is very clear then, and it is simple: cling desperately to Christ. We’re not here to write our own script, he writes the script, and we must seek to cling to and rely upon him who is our hope, our rock, our strength, and our salvation.

The one who stood over Adam and breathed breath into his nostrils still stands over you today. Do you understand that? As Adam opened his eyes for the first time, and God was there above him, in all splendour and beauty, there Adam found himself in God’s image. The Lord was there on your first day too. He knit you together in your mother’s womb (Ps 139), he saw to it that you would arrive safely. He is with you even now as you read. The world has fallen, it’s true, but the Author is here, and he remains the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Here, then, is the truth of the matter: he is your hope and your li