More Than a BookSample

The very first sentence of the Bible tells us exactly how God created the world. God spoke everything into being. God always has and will exist. 

There was a time when the only thing that existed was God Himself, but God didn’t want it to be that way. So, he created the entire universe - everything that we see, including people. He made the first two people, Adam and Eve, and lived among them in a perfect, beautiful world. However, as we can see today, perfection didn’t last very long. 

Adam and Eve chose to disobey God, and sin entered the world for the very first time. In Genesis chapter 3, Adam and Eve’s sin separates them from God, so they have to be sent out into the world to experience pain, sadness, and sin for the first time. God can’t be around sin because he’s perfect, so he could no longer be in constant company with Adam and Eve. 

However, God wasn’t done with His people. God promises that he will send someone who will restore everything to the way it was supposed to be. He says that someone is going to come and restore the relationship between God and people to how it was supposed to be. This small verse is so significant in the grand scheme of the Bible because it sets up the rest of the Bible so clearly. 

God loves his people, and he is promising to send someone who will make everything right again. This hope is what drives the rest of the Bible.

Challenge: Write a poem, letter, or song of thanksgiving to God. Thank him for creating the world and for designing us to be in a relationship with him. Make it personal by thanking him specifically for things in your life that he has made.