In the Beginning….
How many times do you hear the phrase ‘where do I start?’. The answer is
usually the beginning.
When you buy a new book, opening that first page with all the newness of the
pages, or if it is from the library the wondering how the opening few sentences
will grab you. Will you like it? Will it captured your attention?
I love the book of Genesis in the bible When I am stuck I just go back to the
beginning. It can be overwhelming reading the bible. There are 66 books in
total. There is the Old Testament and the New Testament. It is a big book.
I can remember my Religious Education lessons and the bible we had to buy. I
said to myself one day I am going to read all of that book.
Well I havn’t, not all. It is not quite the same as a historical novel but
there is nowhere on earth quite like the Holy Bible. It has been copied,
changed, abused, neglected, burnt, you name it, the Holy Bible has an amazing
reputation and causes both reactions of hate and love.
I am no theologian, just an ordinary woman who has met her Creator, God through
Jesus Christ and want to share my thoughts, my faith and do the work God has
asked me to do which is to be myself and write for Him.
‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth’. Genesis 1 v 1
What a beginning! What a statement! Still, even today it is disputed. A
fairytale, a myth despite the beauty, the arrangement, the wonder of creation
around us.
Even a building has an architect. Why is it so hard to believe that this earth
was put together, with the heavens, by it’s own Architect. Yes God, the God in
the Holy Bible.
In the book of Psalms, David, the shepherd, king, brother and friend wrote of
his knowing God and God knowing him. David declared in Psalm 89 v 11: ‘The
heavens are thine, the earth also is thine, as for the world and the fulness
thereof, thou has founded them’…
David discovered or rather God revealed himself to David as the one and only
true living God and through David’s life God proved just how real he was. These
words from David in the psalms are no fairy tale or myths out of his own
imagination, but the reality of a relationship with God himself.
The revelation of Jesus Christ, the Son of God written about in the New
Testament made an impact on John, a chosen apostle. John writes in John 1 v 1:
‘In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God….’
There is no contradiction, no doubt John was given the revelation that God was
there in the beginning. The same God that created the heavens and the earth
became incarnate through the person of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
To establish the fact further John writes in verse 3: “All things were made
by him, and without him was not anything made that was made”….
There are so many times in the book of John where Jesus says ‘I tell you the
truth’ . Jesus says and claims I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no-one
can come to the Father except through me.
In the New Testament the book of Peter another follower of Jesus and apostle,
chosen, talks of his relationship with Jesus, the living reality of knowing Him.
Peter himself writes in 2 Peter 3 v 2: "by the word of God the heavens were
of old, and the earth"….
This reinforcement of the Truth that the beginning was begotten by God himself.
This same God sent Jesus his son to show us the way to the Father in Heaven.
It is a serious message and a prophetic message too. If there is a beginning
there shall also be an end.
Peter talks of the end times in 2 Peter 3 v 5: “But the heavens and the
earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire
against the day of judgement and perdition of ungodly men’
Jesus warns in the New Testament of the times ahead, the troubles, the beginning
of birth pains where new things will happen that will shock people, they are
happening right now, this very second, our eyes see it happening on the tv
screen. All that is seen is prophetically written in the bible. We should not be
surprised.
In John 3 v 12 Jesus states categorically: “If I have told you earthly
things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly
thing?”
Unbelief exists in abundance, men refuse to see and acknowledge the Truth.
They would rather believe lies, falsehod and lead treacherous lives against God,
the very God that made and created the heavens and the earth. The same condition
still exists with man today. But to refuse the grace of accepting Jesus Christ
is to eventually be parted from God altogether and a day is coming when what you
see around you will be gone.
Even the end times was predicted in the Old Testament. Isaiah says in chapter 65
v 17: “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth and the former shall
not be remembered nor come into mind”
The apostle John in the New Testament also beheld this Truth when Jesus revealed
in Revelation 21 v 1: “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first
heaven and the first earth were passed away, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband”
Peter warns in 2 Peter 3 v 10: “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief
in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and
the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works therein
shall be burned up”
For those that believe and have put their trust in Jesus Christ this is a
glorious awaiting, to those who do not believe there is a placed reserved called
Hell. It is not intended that man should go there God does not want anyone to
perish, but the end will come and now is the time of salvation.
Jesus says in Matthew 5 v 3: “Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is
the kingdom of heaven”
And in verse 12: “Rejoice and be exceedingly glad: for great is your reward
in heaven….”
As there is a beginning there is also an end. Jesus says “I am the Alpha and the
Omege, the beginning and the end”
Open the Holy Book, see for yourself, go into your own private room and speak to
God himself for yourself. Do not follow your friends, follow Jesus.
“Jesus says come follow me”
Jacqui Julyan