What Was He Thinking?

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." -Genesis 1:1-2

I cannot count the number of times I have read this scripture. I remember that it took God 6 days to imagine the universe. I remember learning about how God made the earth out of nothing; I remember imagining the moon and the stars and the sun shimmer from the dark corners of the nothingness the earth suddenly appeared from. I remember singing songs about it during vacation Bible school. I remember every camp song ever sung about God creating the seas and the trees and the hippopotamuses. I remember the first time I ever taught a Bible Encounter on stewardship and walked through all of Genesis 1 with my 5th grade campers acting out each day through interpretive dance.

As much as I remember there is also a lot that I forget. I forget which day God made what. I forget which came first - the sky or the water. I forget whether God chose to make the stars and the moon before blasting the sun into view. I forget how cool it is to think about how God capped off creation by making us.

Keeping in mind all that I remember and forget about Genesis 1, I had a new thought today. What was God thinking? Did he know that he was going to make the most beautiful awe-inspiring things ever? Did he realize the impact color would have? Did he spend hours calculating formulas and analyzing bits and pieces of ground to make each and every piece of each and every creature just perfect? Did he know that the creation he loved and toiled over would turn away from him with ungrateful hearts and selfish desires? As the Trinity looked at the universe in it's first days of existence did they know what they were getting into?

I think God knew. I think Jesus knew that eventually he would experience the fall of creation first hand and redeem what would be lost. I think the Spirit knew he would have his work cut out for him when it came to making God known. And even though they knew, they still followed through with it. They still made the flowers, the animals, the mountains, the stars, the rivers and oceans, the clouds, and the wind, and us. Cool.