Bringing proper form to everything on the earth

     Bringing proper form to everything on the earth

Revelation 4:11 explains why God created, “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”  God wanted music, so He spoke it into existence.  God took nothing and formed the mathematical ratios that make musical tones possible and formed them into a most wonderful gift to bring glory to His name. He also created it for our enjoyment as a small part of the wonderful perissos (4053) mentioned in St. John 10:10.  One should note that in His acts of creation, God in and of Himself took nothing and made music. Although God has given musicians the gift of creativeness, they are incapable of making something out of nothing. They can only take God’s musical building blocks and arrange them in creative ways. God allows us to do wonderful things with His blocks, but we should always remember that they are still His blocks.

    Although the discussions in my earlier writings about music being a part of God’s acts of creation are of utmost importance to Christian musicians, I will refrain from repeating them here. However, I will add some additional thoughts about  “in the beginning God created…” that were not mentioned in my earlier works. One of God’s acts of creation was to bring form to the earth. Genesis 1:2 states,  “And the earth [erets 776] was without form [tohuw 8414], and void [bohuw 922]; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”  One of the valuable lessons to be learned from Genesis 1:2 is that because of God’s omniscience He included, as a part of His acts of creation, bringing proper form to everything on the earth. So, it is reasonable to deduce that God is very interested in form. God saw that the erets i.e. the world at large and not just the adamah (127) i.e. the ground, needed to have proper form.