Creation

Here's the other beautiful thing from my *today*. I read it this morning while drinking coffee in the dim light of my morning kitchen:

Redemption is not a strange work that God for a moment turned aside to do; rather it is his same work performed in a new field, the field of human catastrophe. The regeneration of a believing soul is but a recapitulation of all his work done from the moment of creation. It is hard to miss the parallel between generation as described in the Old Testament and regeneration as described in the New. How, for instance, could the condition of a lost soul better be described than by the words "formless and empty," with darkness "over the surface of the deep"? And how could the strong yearnings of God's heart over that lost soul be more perfectly expressed than by saying that "the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters"? And from what source could light come to that sin-shrouded soul had God not said, "Let there be light"? At his word the light breaks and the lost man arises to drink of eternal life and follow the Light of the World. As order and fruitfulness came next to that ancient Creation, so moral order and spiritual fruit follow next in human experience. And we know that God is the same and his years fail not. He will always act like himself wherever he is found at work and whatever work he is doing.

-Tozer