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    Why Creation Matters: God's heart revealed through the canvas of creation
    Why Creation Matters: God's heart revealed through the canvas of creation
    Why Creation Matters: God's heart revealed through the canvas of creation
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    Why Creation Matters: God's heart revealed through the canvas of creation

    By Jim Baird

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    The standard take on Creation is that it displays God's power for all to see through what has been created. But there is more to the Creation account than meets the eye. Not only did God reveal himself through what was created but also in how he created it.

    Have you ever wondered why it took God so long to create the heavens and the earth? He could have done it in the blink of an eye. But he chose six days. Why?

    The answer is found in his intentional process, as it played out over six days of creation and a day of rest. When we look with new eyes we will see a message from God that meets the human heart. We'll see how his process displays abounding provision and love for us and foreshadows his plans for a relationship with us.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateAug 25, 2020
    ISBN9781098324421
    Why Creation Matters: God's heart revealed through the canvas of creation

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      Why Creation Matters - Jim Baird

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      CHAPTER 1

      The God of Darkness / The God of Light

      In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was formless and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters. Genesis 1:1-2

      In scripture, water is often an allegory for humanity.

      This is the first great lesson of Genesis. In his creative process he included darkness, formlessness and emptiness. Yet his spirit always hovered over it and was present in it.

      God revealed to us from the outset that there will be times of darkness, formlessness and emptiness for his children. We have all experienced this at one time or another. Sometimes, we can’t see our way forward because of darkness. Other times our life is shattered and out of control with no rhyme or reason. Yet other times we are where we want to be and have achieved some great goal.

      Then, having arrived, we find an emptiness of heart and soul which we could not foresee and did not expect. I speak from experience when I say times like these are difficult and lonely. While there is often no way around the difficulty, the loneliness need not be part of the process. From the outset, God demonstrated for us that in the darkness, formlessness and emptiness he is there. His spirit hovers over us and interacts with us even when we cannot see it or don’t want to believe it.

      Isn’t it interesting that in a perfect creation, for a season, it was dark, formless and empty? Why would he include this other than to show us that part of the process of our lives would include these times and that ultimately, they are good? Without these times, we would never see our need for God or experience his relentless pursuit of us. We would never have the opportunity to see God meet us in our greatest need or deliver us from our greatest peril.

      As a six-year-old child I became a Christ-follower. Throughout my life I had the opportunity to serve him, love him and grow deeply in my faith in him. I had the normal struggles any of us would experience. I would have considered myself a good Christian and indeed I was. At the age of 22, God led me into the fire service. I spent almost forty years as a professional firefighter / paramedic. On September 7, 1996, fourteen years into my career, when I thought I had seen it all, my life changed forever. I was working as a captain out of station #10. We were on our way to the hospital for training when a call for a domestic disturbance came in. We got the assignment and responded. Because of our location and the fact that we were already on the road, we arrived in less than a minute. As we ascended to the third floor apartment where the incident occurred a police officer, noticeably pale, informed us the child was dead. This is never good news.

      We continued up the stairs and found the mother on the third floor landing outside her apartment. She had been severely beaten and stabbed multiple times. She had a fractured ankle, dislocated shoulder, broken collar bone and was in critical condition. There was no child to be seen. We set to work on the mother to get her stabilized prior to flying her out to a trauma center. As my crew worked on her I asked a different officer about the child mentioned before. This equally pale officer told me he was in the apartment three doors

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