Nothing. Absolutely nothing. No light. No sky. No land. Its incomprehensible to our finite thinkingthe barren nothingness that existed before Genesis 1:1.
Then suddenly, through the work of the Almighty, God supplanted nothingness with the heavens and the earth. The divine hand reached through the void and produced a place, a world, a universe. Through the magnificent convergence of the workings of the Godheadwith the Son enacting the will of the Father as the Agent of creation, and the Holy Spirit as the hovering Presencenothing became something. History began its long march toward today.
The first verse of Genesis provides us with sufficient concepts to contemplate for a lifetime. That introductory statement speaks of enough glory, enough majesty, enough awe to leave us speechless before God. Just as today we would have no life, no breath, no existence without His sustaining action, neither would we have the cosmos without His mighty act at the moment of creation.
In awe we wonder what went on before the beginning. With breathless praise we marvel at the words God created the heavens and the earth. We readand we stand in adoration. Nothing has never been so fascinating!
Bible in One Year: Numbers 2224; Proverbs 23:1-11