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God Spoke and It Was GOOD!
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by Jonathon Wright
n the beginning, there was God, and He created Heaven
live in today. Of course, no one can read the Bible and not
and Earth. Notice that the Spirit of God is hovering over
give thanks for Creation. Nor can we not give thanks that
the waters of the deep. I can envision the Holy Spirit
God came down in the person of Jesus Christ and saved
looking down at the water ready to move at the speed of
mankind. Before God spoke, the world was not visually
light. Then it happens, God said let there be light. With laser
appealing and had no inherent beauty. After God spoke,
precision, the light of God and the Holy Spirit penetrated
beautiful things started to emerge.
the water that surrounded the earth. He called the light
This is the first thought that helps us as we look into
day and the darkness night. The Holy Spirit went through
God’s prophetic plan for the world. He created the world
the entire world and split it in half. This imagery leads me
to be a good place. I know there is a lot of hard times and
to think about the equator and how one side of the earth is
it seems chaotic. But God has not changed. Let us all look
dark while the other side is light.
to God with greater hope and commit to being the light
On the first day of Creation, one can already see God’s
of the world as Christ told us. Let us all, with the Lord's
artistic flair. It is kind of strange that He did not call the
help, make the world a better place to live by getting back
darkness good, but still used it. He is separating the good
to loving God and people. Let us all move forward in faith
from the bad but still using the good and the bad in our
and in a positive direction. I know that if this pandemic
lives. Many designers today use dark and light colors to
would not have happened, I would have never started to
highlight their creations. I am truly amazed at how God
pursue the calling of becoming a Christian writer. May we
can take something that looks bad and make something
continue to share His love with the world.
I love how God spoke and the Holy Spirit came down to Earth and created a beautiful world for mankind to
22 // July 2021
About The Author
good out of it. Jonathon Wright currently lives in Cleveland, Tennessee, and has been a member of the Church of God for about twenty years. He is a graduate of Lee University and Beacon University where he earned a BA and MA in Biblical Studies. He loves studying the Bible and has done so for over thirty years, but only now has God given him a desire and the opportunity to be a writer. He is currently beginning the process of writing a book on Genesis entitled, God’s Good Prophetic Plan: From Beginning to End.
