In the Beginning: When God Spoke, Life Responded Before anything existed, God already was. Genesis 1:1–3 (NLT) says: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty… And the Spirit of God was hovering… Then God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” Letting the weight of this truth settle into us changes the way we see everything. It pulls our perspective upward and widens our hearts to the endless depth of God’s love—love