When God Created

In the beginning God created ... (Genesis 1:1)

God spoke everything except man into being. On the first day, He created the light and dark, day and night. On the second day, He made the firmament or the heavens and waters. On the third day, He divided the waters from the land and created plants to cover the earth. On the fourth day, He established the sun, moon, and stars, which caused the days, seasons, and years. On the fifth day, He made the creatures in the waters and the fowls of the air. On the sixth day, he created the beasts of the field and man.

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul (Genesis 2:7).

Man was special. First of all, God spoke all the other things into existence, but He took a hands-on approach for man. Can you imagine him bending in the dust and using some water to form man? Then when he had the image he wanted, he leaned forward and breathed his own breath into the man's nostrils to give him life. And secondly, He made man in His own image. "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (Genesis 1:27). We are special, indeed!

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him (1John 4:16).

Why did He make us special? He saw all of His creation as good, but He made man to be the object of His great love and for us to love Him in return. When we love Him more than anything else and make Him the priority He should be, we will be obedient because we love and trust Him so much. We will surrender completely to Him, and our lives will become as He meant them to be -- complete because of Him.

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