1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Before God made light, we had water.
And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
The sky was made from water.
9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
The land was made by gathering the water.
10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin[d] and onyx are also there.) 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.[e] 14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
God was sure to tell us that from Eden came a great river that fed all the land.
In the first two books of Genesis, it is clear that water plays a huge role in the creation of everything that we know. I would like to believe that the water that came from God was clear and beautiful and teaming with life. That each drop of water touched everything created by God and took away with it an essence of its wonder.
God created water, all the water that would ever be. We have through the amazing design of God used and recycled the same water everyday since the beginning of time. Water condenses up into clouds, rains down on the earth, feeds all the plants and animals, washes all that needs to be cleaned and still takes away with it an essence of its wonder.
Today, as many of us live a life very different than the life in the garden that God planned for us, we soil our living water. We create acid rains; we pollute our rivers and oceans in the name of a new god called profit. Much of the living water that God gave us is now poisoned and dead. But as we learn from our mistakes and turn back to the one and only God we will exchange goodness and love for profit. We can measure our progress by the quality of our water. This amazing planet was given into our trust, we must return it to the paradise that God gave us filled with living water.
