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Genesis: In The Beginning, God
Genesis: In The Beginning, God
Author: Martha Kilpatrick

God is the beginning of all. What He does not begin, ends at its beginnings. From the fountain of His boundless imagination flow the inventings of our finest ideas. We are merely cups of varying levels of receptivity. Some narrow, some wide. What we begin, drawing out of the cauldron of human depravity and calling it God's plan, will find no support from Him . . . and no Brilliance of His Glorious Mind. He must begin whatever is begun. He initiates. We respond. He proclaims. We hear. He gives. We receive. He imagines . . . we are simply the clay of His inventive molding.
 

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First, the LIGHT

Author: Martha Kilpatrick  3 February 2001

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God said, "Let there be light and there was light. Gen. 1:3 God is Light. I John 1:5 He is Light. All that is clear and pure, all that is open and known, this is God Light is His essence of Utter Holiness and the blazing power that issues from it . . . . God is light and the Father of lights. James 1:17 His creation rises entirely from the energy of Light that proceeds from His Very Being. It is the First Action of all His beginnings. Light is the Origin of all that is God . . . and all that comes from Him. Whatever is of God comes as Light first. ALL His works issue from Light, are birthed out of Light. So everything is some form of Light. Everything He made is Light, and all of ... read remainder of article

God said, "Let there be light and there was light.
Gen. 1:3
God is Light.
I John 1:5

He is Light. All that is clear and pure,
all that is open and known, this is God
Light is His essence of Utter Holiness
and the blazing power that issues from it . . . .

God is light and the Father of lights.
James 1:17

His creation rises entirely from
the energy of Light that proceeds from His
Very Being.
It is the First Action of all His beginnings.
Light is the Origin of all that is God . . .
and all that comes from Him.

Whatever is of God comes as Light first.
ALL His works issue from Light,
are birthed out of Light.
So everything is some form of Light.
Everything He made is Light,
and all of life
. . . ALL of it . . . derives its life
from Light.

Light is unmixed purity, transparent verity.

Light is neither benign nor gentle.
Light is radiation
and that is life to some things . . .
death to others.
Life to light
but death to darkness.

Light issues from a throne of fire -
so it burns and kills impurities
by piercing rays of pure life.

Light is vibrant energy pouring over fallen inertia,
infusing the power to be and to move.
  
The Light was the first cause.
God's Voice called first for the specific of Light
and from the fury of Light,
the chaotic fluid became
the stable substance.

Light is God shining forth, seeing all
and through all.
When His Light is cast on a place,
all-that-is, is revealed.
Only Light makes darkness visible
by sheer contrast.   

Light is a Trinity of elements:
Heat: felt and not seen - this is God
Light: seen, not felt - this is Christ.
Actinic: neither seen nor felt,
but action - this is the Holy Spirit.

When God invades a single life, the Holy Spirit is
first sent to brood, move, and hover.
Then God-Light is released by the Word
and the darkness is identified.

The pattern is this, ever and always:
the Spirit moving over the discord,
God's command to release Light
by the Word-Son
and Creation's response of
heaving into Order.
 
"All is really light, trapped light."
- Norman Grubb

 
The properties of natural light, the sun,
reveal and reflect the essence of Spiritual Light,
the Son, so I speak of both at once.



Copyright © 2001 Martha Blaney Kilpatrick

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1
The Beginning God
1 January 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
In the beginning . . . God . . . Genesis 1:1 God is the beginning of all. What He does not...continue reading
2
The Brooding Spirit
2 January 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
"The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep. The Spirit...continue reading
3
Heaven and Earth
1 February 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
In the Beginning, God (prepared, formed, fashioned, and) created the heavens and the earth. GENESIS 1:1 God created the heavens . . . heaven first. Heaven...continue reading
4
The Word Created
2 February 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
In the beginning was The Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. JOHN 1:1 God propelled creation through His Word...continue reading
6
Light Divides
4 February 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the Light from the darkness. Genesis 1:4 God gazed at the Light...continue reading
7
Beginning Names
1 March 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
God called the light Day and the darkness He called night . . . God called the expanse heaven God called the dry...continue reading
8
Names and Meanings
2 March 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
Naming names - this is God's way to convey His infinite knowledge. The angels of God, have each a specific name. Even the...continue reading
9
Ending Names
3 March 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
The beginning of time was set in order by names . . . The end of all time will also be...continue reading
10
Blessed of God
1 April 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
As each part of the universe became visible elements born of God's Imagination, He declared it "good," and it gave Him pleasure. Yet...continue reading
11
Five Epochs of Preparation
2 April 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
By careful placement of richest provision, God prepared the earth for His masterpiece: man and woman. They were created last, the sixth day. By...continue reading
12
Potter and Architect
3 April 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
Adam was "formed" not spoken into being. The rest of creation was spoken, from the heavens to the ant, all created by God's...continue reading
13
Tree of Choice
1 May 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
Out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for...continue reading
14
A Garden
2 May 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
8. The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden. and there he placed the man whom He had...continue reading
15
The Creation of Rest
3 May 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he...continue reading
16
Endless Day
4 May 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
The last day of Creation is the Only Blessed Day out of the seven days of God and its increase will be...continue reading
17
Lies of the God-Hater
1 June 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
Hanging on the Tree of Knowledge, his domain of death, the God-hater spied on the God-loved woman and waited patiently for a...continue reading
18
Falling into Self
2 June 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
Though ages have passed and time has washed by in eons, we have yet to understand what an enormous loss happened in...continue reading
19
Lost Souls
3 June 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and...continue reading
20
Probing Questions
1 July 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
Then the eyes of both of them were opened and       they realized they were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together...continue reading
21
The Father's Loss
2 July 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
What Adam and Eve lost we know in part, and mourn. What God lost, we've never cared. God lost His lovely world, the...continue reading
22
Cursed and Banished
3 July 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
The Lord God listened to the answers, heard the innocence declared and turned without arguing, to declare Himself. And speak His answer! But...continue reading
23
First Sin, First Blood
1 August 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. Genesis 3:21 NIV Adam and Eve, the first...continue reading
24
Eden Closed
2 August 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
So the Lord God banished him from the      Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After...continue reading
25
The Garden Enclosed
3 August 2001  Author: Martha Kilpatrick
Eden is hidden, now a dimension rather than a location. Yet it can be found in the heavenlies by the violent search...continue reading