4/19/04

The Breath of Life

I try to imagine in my mind's eye just what creation was like.

How God took nothing and created something.

How He just spoke and the sun just appeared in the nothingness.

How He just said the word and the stars began to show their first twinkle.

With just a word, He spoke into existence the trees and plants, the fish, the birds, and the animals on the earth.

How it all must have just appeared as if by some wild magic trick.

But, there was no magic.

Just a sovereign God, His hovering Spirit, and His Son, The Word.

And as God, His Spirit and His Son look down upon their marvelous creation, they decide to make another species... man.

I can imagine the smiles on their faces and the twinkles in their eyes as they discussed this new creation.

And so, "God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."

But, yet, this creature was to be different than all the others.

This creature was to have a body as the other creatures, but in addition, it was to have a spirit... a soul, as well.

I can see this lump of clay that God takes into His big, holy hands and molds into a tiny man, in His own likeness.

And then he takes the lifeless creature in His hand and gently breathes the breath of life into the small, limp creation.

Immediately the tiny eyes open as if in a daze.

The small creature begins to move and take life.

A relationship is begun...

Between a man and His God.

What an intimate moment that must have been.

"And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."
Genesis 2:25