Genesis 1:1-13

¹ At first, God created the sky and the land,

² but the land was unformed and unfilled, and the deep space was dark, and God’s spirit was shaking up the water.

³ Then God said, “Let light be,” and there was light,

⁴ and God approved of the light. God separated the light from the darkness.

⁵ God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. After evening was over and morning came, the first day was completed.

⁶ Then God said, “Let a divider be placed in the midst of the water, and let it separate the water above from the water below.”

⁷ so God made the divider and separated the water that was under the divider from the water that was over the divider. And it became that way.

⁸ God called the divider “sky.” After evening was over and morning came, the second day was completed.

⁹ Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry ground appear.” And it became that way.

¹⁰ God called the dry ground Land, and the water that had been gathered together he called Seas, and God approved.

¹¹ Then God said, “Let the land sprout flora: plants producing seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the land.” And it became that way.

¹² The land produced flora: plants producing seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, and God approved.

¹³ After evening was over and morning came, the third day was completed.

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The God who forms the unformed, and fills the unfilled

God could have created the entire universe in an instant. Why didn’t he? What did he gain from laboriously fashioning the universe by separating part from part, and then filling up the empty spaces with light and life? He created something he approved of. That is what he is doing with you and me. He created beings without their proper shape, because he wanted to shape us into his perfection. He created within us an emptiness that only he can fill. Part of our emptiness is our mortality. The LORD longs to give us eternal life.

Holy Spirit, shake us up, and shape us unto something that you approve of. Fill our empty lives with your eternal life.