Teaching Tuesday: In His Image - Genesis 1:1-2:3

Series: Creation to Covenant - Genesis 1-11
Sermon: In His Image - Genesis 1:1-2:3 (1.4.26)
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“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void…” (Genesis 1:1–2).

The Hebrew words translated “formless and void” are tohu and bohu. They describe chaos, emptiness, disorder—something uninhabitable and unfinished. Before light, before land, before life itself, scripture shows us a world that is confused and unshaped.
It is into that chaos that God speaks.

Day by day, God brings order out of disorder. He separates light from darkness, waters from land, day from night. He fills what is empty and gives purpose where there was none. Again and again, God looks at what he has made and declares it “good.” Creation is not rushed; it is intentional. God forms, then fills. He brings structure, then meaning.

God is still doing that same work today. In you, if you’ll let him.
 
Many of us carry areas of tohu and bohu in our own lives—relationships that feel fractured, habits that feel unmanageable, seasons that feel confusing or empty. Sometimes we look at our inner chaos and wonder if anything good can come from it. Genesis reminds us that chaos is not a barrier to God’s work; it is often the starting point.

God does not abandon the formless and void. He enters it. His Spirit hovers over the waters, present before anything looks fixed or finished. And he begins, patiently and powerfully, to create.

If your life feels unsettled right now, take heart. God is not done. The same voice that spoke light into darkness is still speaking—bringing clarity, healing, and direction. His work in us is often gradual, sometimes messy, but always purposeful. He is forming us and filling us, shaping us into people who reflect his goodness.

Where you see chaos, God sees potential. Where you see emptiness, God sees room to create. Trust the Creator who brings beauty from tohu and bohu—and is faithfully doing so in you.

TO KNOW HIM AND MAKE HIM KNOWN!

- Pastor Brady