For a while (maybe the whole month) I long to study The Holy Spirit. And I’m inviting you along for the journey. Scripture is replete with uses of His Name.

Today we begin with the “first mention” of the Spirit of God. One basic law of hermeneutics (the science of interpretation) is to go to the beginning of any body of literature’s use of a matter … to best analyze that matter’s “working” definition.

So, Genesis 1:2 informs us (the week of Creation) that “The Spirit of God moved ….”

Wow!

The noun for “spirit,” in Hebrew “ruach,” literally means “wind, breath, air” or even “blast!” From a “puff” to a “roar.”

Yes, in a sense (grammatically) the Holy Spirit IS the very Breath of God!

In another sense He (notice I am using a personal pronoun for Him) IS God Himself!

The Third Person of The Trinity, we say.

But look what the Spirit did during (actually before) the Creation. He “moved” over the “darkness that was upon the fact of the deep.” Genesis 1:2

The verb is “rachaph,” which means “to hover, to flutter,” in this precise setting … as a Hebrew Piel stem verb.

And what was the result of His “fluttering?”

There was light!

Genesis 1:1-3 gives us the meat of today’s meditation. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God MOVED upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be LIGHT: and there was light.”

The Spirit “hovering” over chaos!

And God, acting upon His (the Spirit’s) “fluttering,” declared, “let there be light.”

Yes, the Holy Spirit is the Bringer of Light!

The Dispeller of Chaos, Disorder, Darkness!

Do you know Him?

Let Him, invite Him, to hover over (to oversee) your life today!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell