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Holy Spirit
What Is the Spirit of God and Where Is It?
To understand, you must take a trip back to the beginning of creation
In The Beginning Was Spirit
Imagine the spirit of God hovering over the face of a formless, empty earth filled with nothing but void and darkness. God comes up with the greatest idea and breathes out the words, “Let there be light” and in a blink of an eye, everything changes.
There’s light where there was once darkness, void, and emptiness.
The light sweeps across the surface of the deep, piercing every darkness and leaving in its place the light that helps us see. God sees that the light is good for the earth and he separates the water under the vault — which he called “sky” — from the water above it.
He moves the water from under the sky and gathers them in one place — naming it the seas — to let the ground appear so you and I can walk on dry land. On the land, he put vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees so it could bear fruit.
God thought you and I deserved so much more!
So he created more light — the sun, the moon, and the stars — to separate us from darkness in the vault of the sky, which serves as signs to mark sacred times, and…
