And Nothingness Became

From emptiness,

in that eternal void and vacuum

where nothing dwelled or existed,

the Lord spoke and with His word

everything became,

suddenly summoned out of blackness,

without evolving or choice,

let it be was the everlasting divine declaration

producing matter out of the darkness.

 

This miracle of being is the fruition

of His breath blowing with creativity,

giving life when none had even been,

a pure expression of His omnipotence

not requiring thought or transition

to flower as the blossoms of His will.

 

It is a symbol for the nature of His power,

capturing what is so vast and incompressible

to hands that must sweat and toil

just to shape and mold crafted object.

 

Within our minds it is impossible to perceive

all the immenseness of His energy

and appreciate how with a single utterance

what He desires to occupy time and space

manifest by the loving gift of His grace.

 

Perhaps in the writings of the Apostle Paul

we can grasp some special understanding

when he wrote in Ephesians 2: 10,

how we our God’s “creation,”

having a meaning in the original tongue, we our His ‘poem.’

 

Helping us to fathom

that for our Heavenly Father

every single thing that ever has any substance

was a special part of His literary artistry.