“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End”
Revelation 22:13
Everything that was and is was in God. Before God created anything,
there was only God. Thus, God had within Him the potential
for everything He made. Nothing exists that was not first in God.
God is the source of all life, because before anything was, God is.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”
(Genesis 1:1). He pulled everything that He made out of Himself.
Indeed, the beginning was in God before it began. God started start.
If the Book of Genesis had started with Genesis 1:0, it might have
read, “Before there was a beginning, there was God. Before there
was a creation, there was a Creator. Before anything was, there was
God.”
God did not begin when the beginning began. He was in the
beginning before the beginning had a beginning. “In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”
(John 1:1). Everything in the world we know was in God before it
came to be seen. “Through [God] all things were made; without Him
nothing was made that has been made” (John 1:3). Thus, God is the
source of all potential. He is everything we haven’t seen yet.
When we describe this characteristic of God, we say that He is
omnipotent. Omni means “always” and potent means “full of power.”
God is always full of power. He can always do more than He has
already done.
Everything that
was and is was
in God.
