Charles Spurgeon Commentary Genesis 1:2

"And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters" — Genesis 1:2 (ASV)

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

When God began to arrange this world in order, it was shrouded in darkness, and it had been reduced to what we call, for want of a better name, "chaos." This is just the condition of every soul of man when God begins to deal with him in his grace; it is formless and empty of all good things. There is none righteous, no, not one: there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way.

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters (Genesis 1:2).

This was the first act of God in preparing this planet to be the abode of man, and the first act of grace in the soul is for the Spirit of God to move within it. How that Spirit of God comes there, we do not know; we cannot tell how he acts, even as we cannot tell how the wind bloweth where it listeth, but until the Spirit of God moves upon the soul, nothing is done towards its new creation in Christ Jesus.