God is Life, the only real Life. Since God is everywhere, Life is self-existent, eternal. Then all elements of Life—vitality, growth, creativeness, and development—are expressed everywhere in God's universe. All of Life's infinite faculties, including the ability to act, are expressions of—and inseparable from—Spirit. Therefore they are perfect and spiritual.
In the record of creation in the first chapter of Genesis we find the inspired account of the true universe. Heaven, earth, and every identity therein are figuratively presented—as grass, herb, tree, creatures, fowls, and generic man—each one a productive spiritual idea, composing God's beautiful plan of continuing unfoldment.
Close study of this chapter shows frequent reference to God-governed movement. We read that "the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Gen. 1:2; We feel the steady flow of action in the record: earth produces, fowls fly, creatures move. Liveliness and movement permeate the wonderful portrayal of infinite, pulsating Life, in which each spiritual idea harmonizes, fulfilling its active role in God's perfect universe.
