And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. (Gen. 1:3 KJV)
God was the first personality introduced to us by the Bible to have uttered a sentence. Whilst the Bible began with the despicable state of things typified by the presence of darkness, vainness and voidness, barring color or candor, the state of things was simply bad. This was how the curtain was lift at the start of the opera that hosted our earth now better know. God was the only one present or identified to own the resolve to challenge the disorder and reinstate order.
That God had to deal with a start off the nature so described in Gen 1:2; (“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.”) must inform and prepare us to be strong and courageous to confront and correct any situation that may assail anytime and gain dominion to redirect things until we reinstate peace and order.
It is therefore of important note, to observe and contemplate the process and procedure engaged and employed by God to reinstate order into the disorder. Note, God did not exasperate nor complicate the situation by rehearsing the blackness of the dark situation, its emptiness and blankness rather God began by speaking the changes He desires and expects. The sheer discretion to call out and speak what He wanted to see is the primary basis to experiencing what anyone may so dearly desire. We must gain courage (like God) in the face of intense difficulty and/or vexation not to rehearse the difficulty being watched or experienced but rather begin to speak the change we long to see and experience.
Consider what the children of Israel said about a challenging and difficult situation they experienced. Some spies sent to see the land they (Israelites) were promised by God to possess brought to the people a report that; “…we be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, the land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept that night.” (Numbers 13:11-33. 14:1 KJV). The report and the people’s reaction to the challenging report/situation was not pleasing to God neither did it help them in the circumstance. We must be careful how we engage with negative or difficult situation. God would answer these people when HE said, “As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.” (Num. 14:28-29 KJV)
Beloved, what are you saying or what have you said, the lesson and import is, if we call for light we shall see light. Let us learn, acquire and absorb this truth and understand; “A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” (Prov. 18:20-21 KJV). Speak well.
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