Waiting to Unfold

The creation is mysterious and full of the invisible.  It is as Romans 1:20 says, "Ever since the creation of the world His eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things He has made."  What is now being seen was once invisible and equally so there are things unseen which are waiting to be made visible.  Thus, we hear also from Hebrews 11:3, "By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the Word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible."  Every day the invisible holy mystery which speaks of the fabric of the created order is unfolding before us.    

None of what the New Testament writers tell us is a surprise for the very first book of beginning describes the unfolding nature of creation.  It tells us how the unseen was made visible. The opening words of Genesis speak of the earth as a "formless void and darkness." (Genesis 1:2)  The day and night, the sky and the water, the vegetation and fruit trees, the greater light and the lesser light, the living creatures of every kind, and men and women were all in that first moment of creation invisible and waiting to be seen.  One of the most descriptive and accurate words to speak of the Creator's work is unfolding.    

Even as the world was created in the beginning as an unfolding work of God, so is it true in the present.  It is surely true that the Creation is full of glorious things to be seen, but it is even more true that there is more hidden and invisible than the clearly seen and visible.  When we look at what has been revealed to us in our own lifetime, we are reminded that there is still more than can be imagined out there waiting behind the veil of the invisible waiting for its time.  The creative energy of the Creator is not limited.  His transcendent presence is always falling and ready to renew.  What has been seen and is being seen is like a half a drop in the bucket when compared to what is about to unfold before us. Wow!