Day 1 and 2: What is seen was not made out of what was visible.

I have started a reading plan on You Version - 365 days through the Bible called Ownit. I think it's titled this because there are no associated commentaries, just connected daily readings in both the new and Old Testament. I am going to use this as the foundation of these blog entries. I have chosen not to use a commentary reading plan because it is so easy to read someone else's revelation (which is good) but then fail to engage in your own. You forget another's findings but seldom forget your own. I have attended countless research seminars over the years and continually find this holds true...For this reason the name of the reading plan is appropriate: 'own it', take responsibility for your personal revelation of God. Here is my first stab at my 'own it' reading plan:

Day 1 and 2: What is seen was not made out of what was visible (Hebrews 11:1-3 NIV)

Genesis 1 
Hebrews 1:10-12 NIV
Colossians 1:15-19 NIV
Hebrews 11:1-3 NIV

This is quite a statement when you think about it. When we read the account of creation in Genesis it's power is somewhat lost because we've heard it before and we have seen the evidence daily of what is described. But just think, this world as we have known it was created not using a blueprint or developing on someone else's idea as almost every other invention of man has done. It was conceived afresh in the infinite invisible creationist of the Triune God. Conceived afresh! The intricacy of millions of different creatures and species of plant and animal. I marvel alone at just how the body works or how a mountain came to be! What is even more unbelievable is that this earth and universe is just one canvas on Gods wall. He will roll up the current, and start afresh with a new work. Except the second round will be even better than the first. 

I then got thinking, if we are made in Gods image, does something of this invisibility exist within us? Jesus was born with this in-crafted invisibility as the image of the invisible God who created both visible and invisible things. Are we able to create when we have not seen? Are we wired to believe in something we have never seen before? The only physical manifestation I could think of in this regard is to figure out if any born completely blind person has created and painted what he or she has never seen before.  Blow me down, I came across the story of Turkish Esref Armagan. He was born without eyes.  I suspose he can feel and smell, and hear the stories recounted of the details around him but still, he can create with colour and accuracy things of this life.

http://esrefarmagan.com/

Volvo recently asked Esref to create a picture of the s60. For someone who has never seen a car or anything, he produces this?  http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaybzk_all-new-volvo-s60-esref-armagan-bli_auto

Watching this was quite overwhelming for me. How gracious is our God that in our deep darkness we encounter His image within us, invisible creation life and the ability to see through our blindness. One day I will come face to face with the author of creation who makes this possible. Our eyes and hearts will be opened to understand who He is and the fullness of the power that exploded the earth into being with just a word.

He also says, “In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end.” (Hebrews 1:10-12 NIV)

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible. (Hebrews 11:1-3 NIV)

The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, (Colossians 1:15-19 NIV)