Gen.1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
Gen.1:31 God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good.
Of course we know that the fall was no surprise to God. It was not God’s will for Adam and Eve to make the choices that they made, but it did not take an omniscient God by surprise. In light of that truth, that God was not taken by surprise, the very first chapter of Genesis gives us a foretelling of God’s redemptive ways. Look at what Genesis 1:1–2 says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was formless (wild) and void (empty) and darkness was over the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.” The King James version uses the word “hovered” instead of the word “moving,” describing the activity of the Holy Spirit over the face of the waters. That word “hover” carries the meaning of a bird brooding over her eggs. The idea, is that the Holy Spirit was bringing forth life out of wildness, emptiness, and chaos. The word “Genesis,” means beginnings, and at the very beginning God gave us insight into his redemptive power over man’s fallenness. Here is what God is trying to say in His brilliant foretelling; that in our brokenness, and our darkness, our emptiness, and our wildness, the Holy Spirit is already there brooding, and hovering, to stir up, and bring forth life, so that when God is finished he’s able to look at our lives and say “very good.”
