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God's Love…“IntheBeginning”                                                                                             

In GENESIS we read… "In the beginning, God…”[1] Stop! We frown and are puzzled; but then a tremendous thought begins to race about in our mind. “In the beginning …” we think about those words and we think… period — nothing else — space — emptiness — a vast void. But, how can there be a void when God IS? Back up and start again. ”In the beginning God…" Don't stop! "God created heaven and earth…" and now we begin to smile a bit because now the void is filling up — with people — with us! Happily we project ourselves into the picture with pride and joy. Ah! But, who can look through the dense and menacing clouds of pride and our poor intellectual power to see what was before? Who can fathom what was — before the sun — before the moon — before the stars — before the earth — before life — before us — in the beginning.       

   In the beginning God “Was” and “Is” always. Look back and back and farther back. Look still farther back — no beginning — no beginning! We shake our head, dizzy. God was “ALWAYS” and He was doing all right by Himself, without us. So, why are we here, we who are miserable, sinful and loathsome in our sins? “Love,” that is why — “Love,” which is infinite — “Love,” which is powerful, warm, paternal and embracing. So we came to be, begotten of the Love of God and eternal in His plan. We are His children, inheritors of our Father's everlasting Kingdom; we were in the beginning with God and will be in eternity with God, if it is our will. Thanks be to God. Amen.