Theme of the week: God's Masterpiece
Monday, September 12, 2011
Key Bible Verse: The LORD merely spoke, and the heavens were created. He breathed the word, and all the stars were born. (Psalm 33:6) Dig Deeper: Colossians 1:15-17
I look around at the stuff of the world and I ask myself what it is made of.
Words. Magic words. Words spoken by the Infinite, words so potent, spoken by One so potent that they have weight and mass and flavor. They are real. They have taken on flesh and dwelt among us. They are us. In the Christian story, the material world came into existence at the point of speech, and that speech was ex nihilo, from nothing. God did not look around for some cosmic goo to sculpt, or another god to dice and recycle. He sang a song, composed a poem, began a novel so enormous that even the Russian novelists are dwarfed by its heaped up pages.
You are spoken. I am spoken. We stand on a spoken stage. The spinning kind. The round kind. The moist kind. The kind of stage with beetles and laughter and babies and dirt and snow and fresh-cut cedar.
The magic is real, and I stand blinking on the stage because of it. I'm real. I'm heavy. I'm matter. Cut me and I'll bleed. But if the Magician, the Poet, the Word, the Singer were to stop his voice, I would simply cease to be.
My Response: I will read today's Dig Deeper, reflecting on what it means to be held together by God.
Adapted from Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl
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