Nothing/Something

Jogging has become an excellent opportunity to talk to and listen to God.  On a recent jog, I started out by re-telling God how, I am nothing.  He and I have had this conversation many times before. Because, as I tried to convince Him, I seriously am nothing.  I easily could be called a mistake by most human standards.  As I was re-reminding God how there really is nothing about me, He spoke right to my inner being, "Ok, but look what I do with nothing. I speak and nothing becomes something."  I practically had to stop jogging as He flooded me with scripture after scripture, where God "spoke".

 

Genesis 1 actually starts it all off.  "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light."  There was nothing. It was formless, empty, and dark. Then God spoke and there WAS.  Nothing became something at God's spoken word.

 

Genesis 6 tells us the story of one little man on the face of the earth.  This man was not famous. He was not a king. He was just a man and then God spoke.  God spoke and Noah listened and obeyed.  God spoke and used Noah to save 8 people from the flood. Those 8 people God used to replenish the earth. The nothing became something.

 

I Samuel tells of another "nothing".  He was the youngest of his large family.  The Message translation describes him the "runt".  He wasn't even worthy enough to go to the feast that the priest had asked his family to attend; he was watching the sheep.  But, then God spoke. "Rise and anoint him; this is the one.” (I Samuel 16:12) At God's word, the sheep watching, runt of the family, became the best known king of history.  King David. This runt - this nothing was called "a man after My own heart" by God.  David went from tending his father’s sheep to tending his Father’s sheep. The nothing became something.

 

Oh, and what about a girl? Girls were truly a nothing in Bible times. There was a nothing girl, living in a little nothing of a village; until the day that God spoke.  “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. 31 You will conceive and give birth to a Son, and you are to call Him Jesus." (Luke 1:30-31)  The nothing became the mother of the Savior of the world.  God spoke and nothing became something.

 

Another "nothing," may not have been considered a "nothing" by his peers, but by his own admission, he called himself the worst of all sinners.  This worst of all sinners fell to the ground when God spoke. “About noon as I came near Damascus, suddenly a bright light from heaven flashed around me. 7 I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?" (Acts 22:6-7).  When God spoke this worst of all sinners was used to spread His Word throughout the world.  The nothing became something when God spoke.

 

So are you a "nothing"? Are you empty? Are you just one person? Are you the runt?  Then hear God speak: "Ok, but look what I do with nothing. I speak and nothing becomes something."