Week 1 Genesis 1
The bible maps out the big ideas for a me: my personal life & value…my world…my actions…my destiny and like that.
And right here in verse one it explains where everything and everyone came from: in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Revelation is the last book in the bible so that puts it as far away from Genesis as it could be. However…when I’m reading-through consecutively I finish Revelation 22 on December 31 and the next day – presto! – I’m reading Genesis. They’re about as close as you can get.
So I was reading Revelation a few days ago where John saw 24 elders worshipping the Lord and he heard them say: you are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created everything, and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created.
If I shift the Revelation-pieces around John says that…
a) the Lord created everything
b) because of that his glory-honor-power should be recognized – and
c) therefore he should be worshipped.
Genesis only tells me about point a). But John takes it along to b) & c).
Which is a good reminder…Genesis 1:1 is a fully accurate statement but it’s not a fully developed one.
Which also reminds me that what I read today might not be the one-and-only thing said about a topic.
Note: quotes from Genesis 1:1 & Revelation 4:11 (NLT)