And when they do, just as 1 Peter 3:15 says be ready to give them an answer for the hope that is in you! Perhaps He is putting His love in you for the most unlovable people. But God changed me! Maybe God is developing a faith in you that can stand the strongest storms. I would scream and yell and give myself migraine headaches for nothing. Maybe you are like me, and had an anger problem. In the same way, others need to be able to “look” into our lives and see the great things that God is doing, and has done. We get to see it all through the “window” of the sky. Get you telescopes and spot the nebulas and far off solar systems. See the falling stars, the moon, the planets, and the comets. Imagine the beauty of a clear, starry night. The purpose of the sky is to allow us to see what God has made above the ground! In a real sense, it’s a window to what He has made beyond our little world. “The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handywork.” Suddenly, when I had all but forgotten that study, God brought it back and showed me what I had not gotten prior. What I read brought back the old study, and that first verse jumped off the page, and into my spirit. Then a month or so later, as I was having my morning devotion before work, I felt impressed by the Holy Spirit to read the nineteenth Psalm. So, I moved on, and eventually studied something else.
The firmament is an old word for the expanse of the sky. I progressed on in my study, but I stumped when I came to the creation of the firmament. We too had to have His light to shine on us in our unregenerate condition, so we could become aware of our need of Him, and His forgiveness. But the Holy Spirit was hovering over us, too, convicting us of our sin, and telling us of our need for Christ. We, too, were without form and void, and without order and chaotic. And the Holy Spirit was hovering, or brooding over the face of the deep. I noticed that when He created the heavens and the earth, that they were without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. I was drawing similarities with God’s work in Creation, and His work in the New Birth. A couple years back, I remember doing a study on the days of Creation. So forgive me as I go for day # 2 in Genesis 1. You know, I can’t seem to get away from this passage of scripture right now. “And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which under the firmament from the waters which above the firmament: and it was so.Īnd God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years” Genesis 1: 7, 14
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