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Written by Chelsea Logan, a contemporary writer and church planter.

The story of creation gives us a powerful reminder that it’s through the waters of chaos and nothingness that God brings forth creation and new life. In those spaces and places that feel the most void, the least purposeful, and often the most painful, God is already at work creating and redeeming. As one theologian put it, “The anxieties that torment me as I face the insecurity of my existence and the dark curtain of the future become the raw material from which I let God build my trust and my faith.” The chaos we experience, in Christ, becomes fertile ground for creation. And while this is by no means easy, trusting in the Lord means knowing and expecting God to take the soups of nothingness in our lives and transform them into works of divine creation.

When God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. [Genesis 1:1-2]