God's Big World and His Big Love for YouSample

“Then God said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us…So God made human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:26a, 27 NLT

A long, long, long time ago, nothing existed except for God. But then God turned the nothing into billions of amazing things. Everything in the whole universe has been created by him—the weird bugs and the beautiful mountains. The tiny cells and the ginormous galaxies. They all exist because God specifically chose to make them, and afterward, he said that they were all good.

But did you know that out of everything God created, he made one thing more special than all the rest—one thing that he called very good? He made you! And he made you different than anything else he had made—he made you to be like him! The Bible calls this being created in God’s image.

God made people to be his friends and told them to learn about the incredible world he created and to take care of it. You can read more about this in Genesis 1-2.

You may feel pretty small compared to some of the other things God created, like stars, planets, galaxies, and even big animals like elephants and whales, but God says that you are more important than them all. He made you special and thinks of you as his very best creation.