August 30 - Pentecost

Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning God. This is the foundation upon which everything else is built. We can't really even fathom how this is so. The inquisitive child in each of us wants to ask, "Who made God?" The answer in Genesis, and in all of Scripture, is that God just is. To Moses God says, "I am who I am." But all of this leads us nowhere if we keep it in the abstract, and indeed God is not concerned with the abstract. He's concerned with the concrete. So the very next words are words of His concrete action, "created the heavens and the earth." It all starts with God whether we can grasp it or not. This has huge implications for us as we look around at our world, and as we seek to understand the most fundamental questions of life.