Genesis 1:6-8 Room to Work

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"The ozone layer visible from space at Earth's horizon as a blue band of afterglow within the bottom of the large bright blue band that is the stratosphere, with a silhouette of a cumulonimbus in the orange afterglow of the troposphere." Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center - JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=108456866

Genesis 1:6-8 “And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.” 

    Before God started making things, He made Himself room to work. The place where God set the sun, moon and stars is called the firmament of the heavens (1:17), but so is the place where the birds fly (1:20). The word firmament simply means expansion. But is the firmament, or expansion of air where the birds fly and clouds float the same expansion as the one where the sun shines and the moon and stars orbit? To this day there are visible division layers between these two heavens called the stratosphere and the ozone layer. From space they look like a thin blue mantle. It seems pretty clear in this text that God's original creation included some sort of airborne ocean above the firmament of the heavens. The sky was a space between two bodies of water, one below and one above, like a bubble wrapping the planet. Where did all the water above the firmament go? Tuck that question away for a few chapters and keep reading.  

    Again, notice God dividing as He creates. The divisions he made are separations to create space, to organize and classify His work and make distinctions between different parts of creation. God set things apart and assigned them different roles, functions, and characteristics for a specific purpose. Where has He placed you? What makes you separate from everyone else? Have you discovered His purpose for you? If not, then it's high time to give God permission to make space in your life, to clear the air and add an expansion so He has more room to work in you. It's time to let Him divide you from your selfishness, from your pride and raise you to live above, held up by the atmosphere of heaven. 

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The Word of God is bread from heaven. God sent it, but we must gather it, appreciate it, digest it, and live by it. These days it is increasingly scarce. Many are starving for it and don't know it because they keep feasting on bad bread that doesn't satisfy. But if we would learn to carefully gather up the fragments of the True, Heavenly Bread of Life, we would always enjoy a feast of crumbs, because even God's crumbs are miracles mighty to save (Mark 7:24-30). ESPAÑOL: La Palabra de Dios es pan del cielo. Dios lo envió, pero debemos recogerlo, apreciarlo, digerirlo y vivir por él. Hoy en día es cada vez más escaso. Muchos están muriendo de hambre por falta de él sin saberlo porque se alimentan de pan falso que no satisface. Pero si aprendiéramos a recoger cuidadosamente los fragmentos del Verdadero Pan Celestial, Pan de Vida, siempre disfrutaríamos de un banquete de migajas, porque hasta las migajas de Dios son milagros poderosos para salvar (Marcos 7:24-30).