A Short Commentary on Genesis 1:1-2
In the beginning (re'shiyth) God ('elohiym) created (bara') the heavens (shamayim) and the earth ('erets). The earth was formless (ohuw) and void (bohuw), and darkness (choshek) was over the surface (paniym) of the deep (tĕhowm), and the Spirit of God (ruwach 'elohiym) was moving (rachaph) over the surface (paniym) of the waters (mayim). - Gen 1:1-2 NASB
The beautiful symphony begins with a tap upon the podium. Our creator and narrator demands us to stand at attention to receive the account of how He alone placed everything in its place and produced its form and stature from not nothing per se, but from the eternal expanse and power of His being. All things are birthed out of Himself and for Himself for this creation is the correct result of a being known as love, for love will never fail to produce offspring.
Now consider the joy of emptiness; a blank canvas, an empty room, an uncultivated plot of land, an unheard song. A future masterpiece is the vision of love upon emptiness, it rises to fill everything in every way. It is the anticipation of what light will reveal in dark places and how life can truly swallow up death; how joy can overcome all sorrow and where comfort blankets the uncomfortable with peace.
It is with great anticipation, a self-contained dynamite stick of joy, that the Spirit of love broods over the darkness; a darkness not of wickedness nor a formless void of chaos, but the womb of expectation, a seed deep in the being of God yearning to sprout in praise of her creator. Just as the Spirit overshadowed Mary and the Word became flesh, so the Spirit awaits the word to come forth with a hopeful expectation of good. The darkness awaits to be commanded.
