"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." (Genesis 1:2)
Without form. Void. Darkness. God had created the earth, but He sure wasn’t done with it yet. Here we have the earth as an empty canvas, waiting for the Spirit of God to begin “applying the paint” to it.
The words that are used to describe our planet in its initial stage are quite interesting. It was “without form”, it was “void.” It was “dark.” These terms conjure up the image of an uninhabitable chaos, a world that lacked order. The description in the original Hebrew is so dark and vivid that some have interpreted this to mean that the world must have been judged and abandoned by God sometime between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.
But isn’t this really just an appropriate description of anything before God moves upon it? The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters and brought order out of chaos. The dark, formless, void we see in verse 2 will be declared “good” in verse 31. What a beautiful picture of what happens when God gets a hold of something!
What about your life? Is your life void and without form, filled with darkness, or has the Spirit of God moved upon you?
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