Following the Trail of God's Promises: The 40-Day ChallengeSample

1. A Perfectly Created World

The scenario, in the abbreviated version, looks something like this: Out of darkness, nothingness and emptiness, God creates light and the whole earth, and fills it with living beings. God creates and imagines everything that we often "take for granted" today, while we fail to stop for a moment and admire the creativity of creation. Darkness and light, day and night, land and sea, sun and moon - so many contrasts that are so beautifully designed and meaningful, each in its own right! Living beings that differ in countless ways, and yet each of them has “its own place under the sun”. Have we ever stopped to think about how everything was designed in detail, perfectly executed, and how much love was shown to man in the very act of creating the world we know today? And then comes mankind as the pinnacle of creation. A living being that, we could say, is at the top of the hierarchical order - created for something deeper than all beings up to that point. Man was created to enter into a close relationship with the Creator. But he also bears the greatest responsibility before all creation and before God Himself. At the end of creation, God was satisfied with everything He made. Everything created was good and He could take a day off from work. A perfect world was created - one in which God rules and all creation lives as it was intended.