Creation

An artist begins a painting, a conductor grabs his baton, or an architect readies his pencil.  All these are moments just before greatness happens.  All of these pale in comparison tremendously to what God did!

You kind of get that feeling in Genesis 1:2.  The Earth was formless and empty, covered in darkness.  The Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.  I can only imagine what that must have looked and felt like.  God who was around forever, was now about to do the most amazing thing EVER!  He picked up His "paintbrush", "baton", and "pencil", and went to work!!!


Then in verse 3, BAM!  "Let there be light"!  And the light shone brightly.  This happened again and again throughout the first six days of creation.


Once again, as I stated last night, there is no place in the Bible where it talks about the possibility of evolution.  No "Big Bang", or zillions of years passing.  The Bible assumes the FACT that God created the universe and everything in it. It is very important for you to understand and believe that as well!  


I won't get into it super in depth here today, but it is also important for you to understand that the Bible is talking about literal days here.  The one area where evolutionists try and mesh their beliefs with ours is in this one.  They say that God created things and then over the course of billions of years things changed before he created the next thing on the list.  This does not line up with the fact that the earth is relatively young.  If the earth was 8 gazillion years old, and erosion stayed at the same pace that it is going now, there wouldn't be anything left!  That's just one argument against that view.  But we won't spend the whole time on that!

We looked at the fact that God formed Adam out of the ground.  Now in the first five days, God spoke and things were created.  We read in Chapter 2:19 that God did form the animals out of the ground as well, but one thing separated them from Adam.  In verse 7, we see that God formed Adam out of the ground as well, but that he bent over and breathed the breath of life into his nose.  

I don't know about you, but that shows me that God took the most time and care when He created humans!  I'm honored that He took the time to do that. It makes me feel even more special and loved.

We were also able to put our geography lessons to good use!  In verses 10-14 we see two of the rivers that were around the Garden of Eden - the Tigris and Euphrates.  This helps us put in our minds a general idea of where the Garden of Eden might have been.  Obviously, no one knows where the EXACT location is, but this gets us pretty close.

And finally, we saw the first picture of what God intends marriage to be.  In verses 20-25 we see that God causes Adam to fall asleep and takes a rib from him and forms Eve.  Verse 24 is used a lot in marriage ceremonies, and is very true.  We see how at the very beginning, God places a very high importance on marriage.  The two LITERALLY become one.  That is why divorce is very ugly and it destroys families.  You can't pull one away without a part of the other one coming with you!!!

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Another thing that is interesting to me is this - God created all the universe, yet it is kind of contained in a few verses.  We are astounded when we look at space and see new galaxies and amazing things.  Yet it is only mentioned kind of in passing here in Genesis!  Yet Adam and Eve dominate almost an entire chapter.  I fully believe that God is trying to say something through that.  That He is saying just how valuable we are to Him.  That we are His prize creation!  

Doesn't that kind of change your perception of God in a good way?  Doesn't that make other verses like Jeremiah 29:11-13 even MORE powerful???

Young person, GOD LOVES YOU!  He wants a relationship with you.  

We saw in the Garden of Eden a literal "Heaven on Earth".  A place of beauty, a place where regular communication with God happened just the same as you talking to your parents!  We will see tomorrow what ruined that.  But the important thing is that God still wants to communicate with you - just in a different way.  He still loves you just as much as He loved Adam and Eve!  He wants to have a relationship with you.  Will you let Him?

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If you have questions about Creationism, an excellent website is www.icr.org  They have a ton of resources and facts for you to learn about.

Now I want to ask you!  What is your favorite part of the Creation story?  What stood out to you the most?  It could be something that we talked about today, or last night.  Share it in the comment box below!

God bless,

Chris