You Can Start Over

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V 2 "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
Water in Scripture often suggests instability and confusion (Luke 21:2525And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; (Luke 21:25)). Maybe that is just how you feel right now about the effects of a former romance or your uncertainty about beginning one. All may seem dark, unformed, and waste, but remember that God is personally, intensely interested in you. So interested that He knows the very number of the hairs of your head (Luke 12:77But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. (Luke 12:7)). Just as His Spirit moved with divine interest over that desolate scene in Genesis, so He does today concerning the conditions of your heart and life.
In a better translation (J.N.D.), the Spirit of God is recorded as "hovering" or "brooding" over the scene of desolation. Why didn't God just give up, destroy the whole creation and then start all over? Because that's not the heart of our wonderful, loving God! He delights to take up ruined conditions and make them beautiful! "I will bind up that which was broken and strengthen that which was sick" (Ezek. 34:1616I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment. (Ezekiel 34:16)).
If sin and disobedience has marked your courtship, repent and confess it to your Father. If there is confusion and darkness in your life about romance, trust and submit in faith to your Father. None can do better for you than He will do! "I will trust in thee" (Psa. 56:33What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. (Psalm 56:3)).