2 Bible results for “without form and void” from 

English Standard Version.

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• Genesis 1:2
  The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
• Jeremiah 4:23
  I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light.

From one perspective, nothing has changed. These two passages written about heaven and earth are about a beginning and an end and nothing in between has changed.

Time passed, millions of years as we understand it have shaped the earth and all that is in it and yet I declare nothing has changed. How can I say that? Because I can see it from God’s eternal view.

What is done is done and nothing can be undone. 

What did Shakespeare say about fate?

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, that our devices still are overthrown; our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

Great thinkers have said a variety of things about fate and they are all right from their own perspective but almost none of them consulted God on His view of fate.

The mystery of our misery lies in wondering why God would set this all in motion considering all the pain and suffering mankind inflicted upon itself.

Well from my understanding of this God I know, my answer lies in the bible and one particular question that went unanswered like a dangling participle. “Is there any other way?”

Don’t bother doing a bible search, that is what God put in my heart. There is no other way for God to gain a bride for His Son. The measure of just how much any of us love our children is found in the expanse of those things we do for our children. God’s great love for His Son is shown from one end of creation to the other.

Call fate whatever you want, see it any way you can accept it, but God’s perspective is this; we were chosen from the foundations to be His Son’s bride. Done with no possibility to undo that choice. There is no need to feel insecure.

Psalm 65:4

Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple!

Righteousness is the concept. We are blessed by His choice, His house, His temple. It has nothing to do with right thinking, right actions, or right choices, only Jesus is righteous and we are blessed just to be with Him.

How easily we slip into feelings of worthiness when it wasn’t even our choice to belong to this family in the first place, we were chosen by God.

Even a fragile ego tries to defend itself. A proud ego doesn’t concern itself with lesser thoughts and is dismissive of other opinions and considerations.

What did we consider when we first decided to place our faith in Christ?

I need to be saved from the fiery pit of hell. That might be for some.

I want to be happy. That might be another thought.

I am wandering around lost in a perverse world that doesn’t care about me. Some might connect to that notion.

I need to be redeemed. Probably not the first thought for most of us. We might discover later the concept of redemption but not necessarily when we first asked Christ into our lives.

Perhaps others are curious in the same manner that I was back then. Why would this God be interested in me? I am not special. That thought led me on a journey of discovery to try and understand why this God would send His Son to die for me. I had never been loved like that. My life experience up until the point of God showing Himself to me was void of that kind of love.

I did not know there were so many different words for love. The Greeks have many words that can be translated as love. English has just one word and how that love is applied is to be considered. Parental love is one and if it is not applied correctly what is a floundering child supposed to think?

Lust isn’t love and if that is all one has felt there will be years of heartache before true love is experienced, if at all. Until then what fills that void in our hearts?