Before the Beginning

Our lives are framed with a beginning and an end. It's hard for us to think beyond those two points in time. In Scripture, we read the words "In the beginning...." This is the way we experience life, view human history, and note the movement of time. From the pages of Scripture we learn that God was active before time; He chose us in Christ before the creation of the world, to be blameless and holy through Christ. As we start the first week of Advent, the place to begin is before the beginning, where God's grace proceeded the creation of mankind.