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So by the looks of Google’s logo today, it must be Earth Day again. I do not typically keep up with all these environmental celebrations and such, but this one is usually hard to miss. So as I was meditating a little today, I looked up several scriptures concerning the earth and what God has to say about it. Of course we know God created the earth and gave us dominion over it. It is not our master and we are not it’s slave. We are of course stewards of it and are to treat it responsibly as we should any gift God gives us and anything He gives us charge over. Psalm 104 has a lot to say about the earth and gives us confidence that God is going to sustain the earth and we do not need to be freaking out about global warming or ozone layers or any number of other environmental issues.

But the verses that jumped off the page for me today were Genesis 1:2-4. “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.”

As I meditated on this passage I saw a picture of our world today (in a spiritual sense) formless and empty and darkness covering it and the hearts and lives of those in it. As I spent the last 2 days with some brothers talking about the darkness that enslaves even many who are called by God, it has resonated in my heart that much of the reason there is no form, direction, solid shape to our world around us is because of the emptiness of those called to give shape and direction and form to the world. Darkness is covering the surface of the deep. There is a covering over the deep heart issues that we are unwilling to shed light on. Brennan Manning says “what is denied cannot be healed.” Darkness is covering those who Jesus called to be the light of the world. But the city on a hill is being hidden. Denial and justification and rationalization has kept the deep in the dark and has left many empty and without form when all the while, the Spirit of God is hovering over the waters, waiting to release and send His cleansing, healing rain down.

I am praying today for God to shed light on the earth once again. I am praying that He will “shine a light on every corner of your life until the pride and lust and lies are in the open” (Thank you Ross King) And that He will once again separate the light from the darkness and that WE – YOU AND I – will see this time that the light is good. And we will walk in the light as He is in the light.

Today Matters, so Matter Today