Thoughts on God’s Creative Process pt.2

The other  morning I woke up at 4:30am and felt like Jesus wanted to show me something. So I pulled my iPhone from under my pillow… (its a habit that carries over from when my wife and I were dating and I was in California and she was in Chicago – different time zones and you don’t want to miss THAT call.)

I felt God lead me to John’s Good News (read: Gospel of John) and read Chaper 1:1-5. Then it was time to pull out the laptop, open Evernote and start writing stuff down.  These are the thoughts that came out of that moment. I considered editing them into a more presentable format, but I thought I would share the raw version directly from Evernote.

Creation brings illumination. 

John 1

1 In the beginning the Word already existed.

The Word was with God, and the Word was God.2 He existed in the beginning with God.3 God created everything through him,and nothing was created except through him.4 The Word gave life to everything that was created,t and his life brought light to everyone. 5 The light shines in the darkness,and the darkness can never extinguish it.

 Extinguish = overcome, comprehend or understand..

The goal of creation is to bring life to the world. Life occurs in the light and darkness can’t understand it. Therefore in order have life, there must first be light.

Our goal as the church is to create in order to bring light. (enlighten, illuminate, shed light upon)

We know that Jesus is the light of the world.

We know that Jesus is the Word of God.

We know that Jesus is gives life.

We know there is no life, except through Jesus. 

Darkness is uncreated space. 

Darkness is the absence of life.

Darkness is the absence of light.

Darkness is the with out understanding. 

Darkness is before understanding – before we understand, we are in the dark. But once we understand, we can never go back to not understanding. Once we overcome, we can not go back to not overcoming.

Creation was created to bring light and life. Everything that is created has a responsibility to be a creator. Therefore it is our responsibility as creators to shed light, bring light, create light, and therefore create life.

If the goal of every creation is to in the end give life – and we know that life only comes through Jesus, then the goal of every creation should be Jesus. (The Word is with and is) He gives life and life gives light (the once known, can never be unknown, never extinguishable, never again un-understandable Salvation of Jesus.)

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After reviewing these thoughts I remembered a video I saw a while back that I think is cool and somewhat fitting…

-That is all