Formless and void

 

“The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” – Genesis 1:2

This is the verse I find most encouraging lately. The Bible is filled with encouraging, mind-blowing promises and declarations of love from God. Still, I find myself going to Genesis 1:2 to draw strength. Why? Because there was a moment in time or outside it, when the earth was formless and void and drowned in utter darkness and The Spirit of God was hovering over that humongous nothingness and darkness. Before the earth had form or sense, before the earth came out of the waters that were drowning it, before the earth was productive, before the earth even knew it could be productive, STILL, The Spirit of God was moving over that chaos. Not aimlessly. It was moving to act out on the earth what God would speak with His mouth. It was an intentional hovering.

My inner world feels like it’s in chaos. Formless and void. Darkness and gloom, but the same Spirit of God that was hovering over the face of the waters, is hovering over my chaos. The same Spirit that brought into existence everything that God commanded, will execute in me God’s will. Even more, “the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you”. (Romans 8:11)

I might feel like this is the end. It’s probably gonna feel like the end for a long time, yet I’m not without hope. “But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.” (2 Timothy 1:12)

by Cristina Pop