Undoing Creation
Genesis 1:1-2, In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness covered the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
In the beginning there was nothing but God spoke and there was something. This something was without form and void. The Hebrew for this is tohu vevohu and in slang we might say everything was topsy turvy, upside down, in confusion. Having spoken matter into existence, God did not stop there, leaving it unformed and useless. He then spoke life into the cosmos. He ordered his creation, he formed it into something good and useful and beautiful. And he created children for himself.
When Satan entered the picture he came to undo the work of God. God is the Creator, Satan is the destroyer. God has shaped creation into what he wants it to be, Satan seeks to undo the work of God, plunging everything back into chaos. This is what sin does. It opposes God’s work in creation and tries to plunge the world into blackness.
We have a picture of this in Jeremiah 4:23: I looked on the earth, and behold, it was without form and void; and to the heavens, and they had no light… Sin directly opposes the work of God and its end result is a return to Genesis 1:1 chaos. This is one reason why sin is such serious business. Any sin, every sin, contributes to Satan’s work of destroying God’s created order. So when you are tempted to sin, consider whether you want your actions to undo Genesis 1.