Moving On

When God began creating the heavens and the earth,

the earth was wild and waste, and darkness covered the face of the deep,

while a breath/breeze/wind/spirit of God brooded over the face of the waters.

When we die, who is the person left behind, and who is the one moving on?  Who is the person that leaves behind the wild and waste, formless abyss, and who is the person that enters into the Spirit of God?

If we think of ourselves from "the other side" of this life, we can hardly imagine that we would enter eternal life with the anger, the resentment, the hostility, the frustration, the busyness and the business that we hold onto every day of our lives.  All of that is what must die eventually -- so why not allow it to die today?

The person that we will be eventually will enter heaven full of joy, full of peace, full of love, full of compassion and understanding for others.  The person inside us who loves to dance, to sing, to laugh, will live forever.  We will know then for sure that we cannot fix anything or anyone else; we can only pour out the good that we have allowed God to pour into us.  We can only share what we have been given from the Spirit, who moves over the waters of our lives, correcting, ordering, balancing, restoring, renewing, bringing light into the darkness.

What the breath of God, the ruah, does continually for the cosmos, God does in our souls on a daily basis. 

Why not allow Him today to begin His work in us?  Why not allow Him to transform the wild and waste abyss of our lives into a cosmos of beauty and truth?  It can be done, but we cannot do it for ourselves.  It is the breath of God and the voice of God in us that creates a new beginning. 

If we never moved beyond the first sentence of Genesis, we would still be renewed by the Spirit of God working His work in us:  For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus (the "new man") to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to do (Eph. 2:10).