As we enter the Lenten season with ash Wednesday we are reminded especially of the life of repentance we live in Christ. So what are we seeing as we turn our attention to the two beginnings - Genesis and Mark? We see the beginning of creation and the beginning of the Gospel. Yet even in Genesis 1 we see the beginning of a gospel account. Look at the care that God lavishes on his creation. Look how he makes everything in a very specific manner, all with rder and reason. Our Lord is in no way random. This contrasts sharply with the writings of the pagans who describe the creation of the world in terms of rather chaotic natural procreative processes. Over against those accounts we see God working in a methodical and precise manner. He is counting days, separating one kind of creation from another, drawing very clear boundaries.
Our Lord has drawn very clear boundaries in this world, including the delineations he has made concerning sin and salvation, despair and hope, lostness and foundness. His desire, stated and demonstrated, is always for a creation that is orderly and pleasing. It is the sin which entered the world later that marred it, made it unpleasing to our Lord, made it clear that this world would need the Savior, God the Son, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. This very good and pleasing creation of our Lord should make us aware of our need for a savior.
Lord of light, creator, redeemer and sustainer of all, may we look to you today as the one who has ordered all creation. Order our day. Guide us in the paths you have appointed. Let us see the way you would have us walk today, in obedience to your perfect creative and restorative will, for you reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
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