Dancing in the Kingdom- Table of Contents
Dancing In the Kingdom – Part 3 – Dancing in the Kingdom– Chapter 19 –The Story of the Kingdom Revisited
Before the Beginning
[Bible references: Genesis 1:1-2]
We are a people of stories. Stories help us make sense of a complex world of which we cannot know everything. Stories help us understand, at least in part, who we are and how we can fit in it. Stories help us make sense of the world. All our stories begin in a certain place and time because we live in a world constrained by place and time. But to fully understand who we are, we have to begin before time, as it were, began.
Our story in the Bible starts with, “In the beginning, God …,” and then goes on to tell us a story of who God is and how God has interacted with us in the world. As we dig into the biblical story, we see that before the beginning of creation, in fact, before the beginning of time, God was already there intending to make creatures who would bear his image, creatures who were capable of love, creatures with whom he could expand the sharing of His love. These image-bearing creatures would, in fact, share many of God’s qualities, including the ability to give themselves freely and sacrificially in love to others.
To reflect the giving love of God, these autonomous creatures would have the ability to choose to either love or not love. The incredible thing is, that even knowing that these creatures would, in fact, choose to not love and turn from Him, God’s made plans to overcome that rebellion and restore those image-bearing creatures to himself.
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