Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth”
NL Daily Devotion for Sunday, August 18, 2019
by Dr. Kimberly Leetch, Clergy Stuff
Main Idea: Everything begins with God, including each of us, significantly important to this world.
It’s no accident the Bible begins with God creating all things. Yes, it’s partly because before creation there was nothing to tell about. But more importantly, everything begins with God. Consistently throughout the Bible, discourses, stories, history, and poetry begin with an account of what God has done. It is not until God speaks or acts that people then respond or act.
God’s act of creation is, well... creative. When you consider the visual splendor of the Arashiyama District bamboo forest in Kyoto, Japan, or the Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland, or the Benagil Sea Cave in Algarve, Portugal, it is overwhelming to grasp the pure imagination and magnificence of God’s artistic eye. When you listen to the sounds of whales, bumblebees, or even sounds found in space, it’s hard to believe a God so big could make sounds so grand and so small at the same time.
God’s act of creation is also quite mathematically and scientifically unequalled. The Fibonacci sequence found in flowers, seed heads, pinecones, fruits, tree branches, shells, spiral galaxies, hurricanes, animal and insect bodies, animal flight patterns, the uterus, DNA molecules, even the human face, suggests that God had fun sprinkling evidence of God’s mathematical genius all over creation.
Everything we know, experience, believe, imagine—it is all because of God. Often, we try to convince ourselves that the most important thing that will ever happen on this planet is what we do or don’t do. But when we compare what we do with what God has done, it can help us put into perspective our relative smallness in the universe.
On the other hand, when we consider just how complex and thought-out the universe is, it is a miracle that we exist at all. The fact that we are here is evidence that we are important to God. In that light, what we do or don’t do is critically important to the betterment (or not) of God’s creation. What we say, do, touch, and think—the mark we leave on this earth matters. We are a critical component of God’s creation, touched and blessed by the creator of everything.
Dear Lord, I thank you for the opportunity to live in this world. Amen.
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