Formed and Filled
God creates the world in the most interesting way you can imagine. Why such detail? Why does the Creation account unfold as it does? There is a pattern and a purpose to it all.
The first three days of creation - God separates and forms.
The second three days - God correspondingly fills the space He formed with related objects.
Day 1 - Light separated from Darkness.
Day 4 - Stars and lights in the universe fill that form.
Day 2 - The atmosphere and oceans.
Day 5 - Birds and Sea Creatures.
Day 3 - Land and vegetation.
Day 6 - Beasts and Man.
The pattern: God forms then fills.
In the Old Testament it was the same way... God had the people form the tabernacle after the pattern God shows Moses. Once it is formed, God fills it with His presence.
In the New Testament - Jesus forms the Church, then God fills it with His Spirit and people come filling it up.
God is in the business of forming and filling.
And He does that with us. He forms you with the family and story you have. The events, the history, the ethnicity and physicality of your life is not without purpose. God will fill it. In fact, He desires to fill what He has formed. You have been formed for His fullness.
John 1:16 (ESV) For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
John 15:11 (ESV) These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
John 10:10 (NIV) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Ephesians 1:22–23 (ESV) And he put all things under his (Jesus') feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Ephesians 3:17–19 (NIV) I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
The first three days of creation - God separates and forms.
The second three days - God correspondingly fills the space He formed with related objects.
Day 1 - Light separated from Darkness.
Day 4 - Stars and lights in the universe fill that form.
Day 2 - The atmosphere and oceans.
Day 5 - Birds and Sea Creatures.
Day 3 - Land and vegetation.
Day 6 - Beasts and Man.
The pattern: God forms then fills.
In the Old Testament it was the same way... God had the people form the tabernacle after the pattern God shows Moses. Once it is formed, God fills it with His presence.
In the New Testament - Jesus forms the Church, then God fills it with His Spirit and people come filling it up.
God is in the business of forming and filling.
And He does that with us. He forms you with the family and story you have. The events, the history, the ethnicity and physicality of your life is not without purpose. God will fill it. In fact, He desires to fill what He has formed. You have been formed for His fullness.
John 1:16 (ESV) For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
John 15:11 (ESV) These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
John 10:10 (NIV) The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Ephesians 1:22–23 (ESV) And he put all things under his (Jesus') feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Ephesians 3:17–19 (NIV) I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
God is forming you and filling you.
You may not feel it at all times, but He's never been in a rush.
He makes all things beautiful in His time.
That's a FULL statement if ever there was one.
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