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