November 5
"In the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth." Genesis 1:1
This first sentence of the Bible is the first word
of revelation. No other book has ever said any-
thing like it. No philosopher, either before or
after Christ, has said it. All of them conceived
the world as being either eternal, as God him-
self, or as evolving by accident. Nobody imagined
a creator, a God, who created everything at once.
Now one could ask, "Does it really matter
whether I believe this or not?" Just consider how
im****tant it is that we and all other creatures did
not get here by chance. When we are told that
everything has been created according to God's
will and purpose and power, this fact alone gives
us a childlike relation****p to God, right in the
first sentence of the Bible. God wanted to tell us
from the beginning that we came from him, that
we are his own, and he created everything
thoughtfully for us and in connection with our
existence; everything we see around us is God's,
and hence, ours too. Everything in heaven and
on earth belongs to him and is ruled by him, as
if by a Father. Should we be indifferent to this
revelation? Shouldn't it give us childlike joy?
Johann Christoph Blumhardt, from
Papers from Bad Boll 1874.
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A PRAYER FOR TODAY
Blumhardt's prayer for today and every day of the year.
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