The Formless Void

Hart's Ex Nihilo

"In the beginning...the earth was formless and void." We often encounter circumstances that challenge us. Those times in life when our posture is one of brokenness; when we feel vacuous and lacking in structure.

Maybe it is an end to a relationship or a crushed dream or a job loss or a devastating diagnosis. These circumstances can bring a sort of turbulent emptiness to our lives. We may feel life will never be OK again. 

"Then God said." Sometimes the voice is boisterous and unmistakable. More often it is still and small (1 Kgs 19). God speaks and brings something out of nothing; order out of chaos. Our existence that once felt empty and void becomes substantive and full. Purpose not yet experienced begins to reveal itself.

This is the hope we have: that God is good on his promise as ehyeh asher ehyeh (Ex 3.14), the one whose very nature is activity, and that he is constantly working to bring the world into rights and each of us along with it.