God began His world with a parting of the waters above and the waters below. “Let there be light,” He said, separating the light from the dark. Holding back the elements of turbulent chaos, with His great hands. Pulling forth life from dust. Bracing in place the puzzle of existence, piece by piece, with His omnipotent grasp.
This was His creation. Pressing out, teasing back, placing here, putting there. Actively wrenching order into the natural strife of chaos and confusion. Into everything. Everything that exists, everything that His fingers have ever touched.
And there is nothing, or no one, too far. To hide from the pressure of His ordered palm. So much, that His law is even inscribed into our hearts. Fitting each action thought and deed into a beautiful tapestry of right and wrong. Separating and weaving the boundaries of His decrees and the chaotic desires that swell inside. He holds them back, discerning.
But sometimes, if the great Maker is questioned, unbalanced, unheeded, unwanted, God may let His hand ungrip. Allowing the waters to crash back into themselves. Drowning the life blood of those who are already spinning in the orderless. Every once in awhile He may let the trickles of unnamed and unbounded break the floodgates, folding in upon each other.
In a swallow of forbidden fruit, the Creator felt self-knowledge flood the reality of existence. Good and evil, angst with God, hiding and terror, sin and separation. At the disobedience to His Word, the boundaries were loosed. Creatures now believed themselves to be gods, good gifts blended into evils, clean rigid lines became blurry and grey.
They now wondered if the restraint of God’s hand had been a burden. Slowly, unannounced, just soothing enough to believe that their infantile wisdom knew better. Or that their freedom in disorder opened the way to their best life. But little did they know, when God removes His hand, the chaos ensues. The disarray is not life. When God lets go, it is certain death.
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