Genesis 1:2 ESV
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Colossians 3:5-11 ESV
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
The earth and heaven are created in the beginning, but the earth begins without form and empty. What might this mean? The presence of the Spirit of God hovering over the darkness could be viewed as a clue.
The Spirit hovered over the face of the deep and He hovers over the darkness behind the face of each man. God is poised to fill us with His light and take us from a formless and empty state to the image of God.
He overshadowed Mary to conceive the light of the world and in the same way He overshadows you and me to enter our flesh. Consider the word overshadow. This could describe the light rising above the shadow below. This could signify life entering into the shadow of the deep, even the darkness that resides in every man. The light of God prevails over the darkness of the earth when the seed of the word falls on good soil. From that seed comes the harvest sought by God.
The earth is being renewed and a new self is taking shape after the image of God, which is Jesus Christ. We become sons of God, children of the light. We are the result of the light of God entering creation. We are the result of the purpose of God.
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