Starting point

I keep coming back to this verse whenever I feel lost, which has been more often lately than I would like to admit. There is something about the sheer weight of it that steadies me. If God was there before anything existed — before time, before matter, before space — then He was not caught off guard by my situation. He is not scrambling to respond. He who spoke the universe into being from nothing can certainly bring order to the chaos of one person's life. The beginning is not just a cosmological statement about the origin of the universe. It is a statement about who is in charge, and that He was in charge before anything existed to be in charge of. I find that I need to read this verse slowly and let it land before I read anything else.