"The sky was made at the Lord's command. By breath from his mouth, he made all the stars."
Psalm 33:6
These last few weeks have been rather different for us at the Eenigenburg house. Ben's car has been unreliable, therefore we've been sharing the one Honda for every activity life demands of us. It looks something like this:
Monday/Wednesday/Friday...
5:30A we both wake up
5:45A I drive him to work & drop off by 6:00
6:20A I arrive back home & try to fall back to sleep before class
9:00A I wake back up, get ready for school, leave by 10:00
12:00P I leave school to go home/ my dad's & kill time before I pick Ben up between 2-3:00
3:00ishP Ben & I have about 1.5 precious hours to spend with each other before I leave for work at 4:45
5:45P I work until 9
9:30ishP I get home, maybe eat dinner, relax for a bit.... go to sleep to start day all over again
But Tuesdays & Thursdays have become my blessing days...
(Repeat 5:30A-6:20A ritual, then pause)
6:30A I make breakfast, put a pot of coffee on, grab my Bible, my journal, the laptop, a trusty black pen, and my Village Church Women's Bible Study Guide. For the next few hours I get to read, study, meditate, and begin my day growing in knowledge and understanding about my God. My creator.
The study is over Genesis, and for the last three weeks I've been meditating and studying Genesis 1:1
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
Seemingly not much to study, until you break each word down within the sentence. Then you begin to open up a new world of spiritual depths that have been hidden so delicately within the simple phrase of the first sentence of the Holy Bible, God's true word. God created the heavens and the earth. God. Only God. No other thing (creation, chasm, theory) can rightfully take credit for the world/universe we know today. God created the heavens and the earth. He created everything. Everything. Everything we know today; everything we use, see, touch, smell; every person, every animal. Everything, God created. He created it in the beginning. Before the beginning, He was there. He will be there when all is destroyed. He is timeless. He is brilliant. He is powerful. He spoke, and it was. He wanted, and it was. Everything works today because of Him. All is His, we are just meager borrowers of His creation.
When you begin your day with this humbling meditation, with the understanding that this is just borrowed time, there's no way your day can be bad.
"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the skies announce what his hands have made. Day after day they tell the story; night after night they tell it again. They have no speech or words; they have no voice to be heard. But their message goes out through all the world..."
Psalm 19:1-4
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