Thread:Sunshine2000/@comment-31246436-20160112170713/@comment-1777104-20160116224358

A valiant effort, AC, but as you can see, it did not quite come across the way you wanted. The word you were translating is tohu, which is translated many ways in the Bible. It means "to lay waste" and is quite well placed with a rhyming word bohu, which means "emptiness." To translate it as "worthless" is an interpretation of what a "waste land" is.

The phrase "without form and void" (KJV) basically means empty and lifeless. It certainly had no practical use until God took hold of it and made it what it is today.

Going back to your "discovery," though, it must never be said that one's purpose is "worthless." Each of us are created in the image of God! We have extremely great worth. Though we may look at our lives as without direction (formless) or purpose ("void"), God does not look at us that way.

I applaud your enthusiasm to take "lemons" to make "lemonade" (as the saying goes). Let us never look at ourselves based on outward indicators, for God knows our true potential.

Consider, instead, the phrase "what a waste!" -- meaning that something had so much potential only to come to a bad end. That is where we need to be careful. As a young person, it can be hoped that you have a long life ahead of you. Make the best of what God has provided, and pray that He will take it like the "deep" and "waters" of the early earth and make something great out of it.

May God bless you in your journey.