Lesson 1~In the beginning God....created...

"In the beginning God..." (Gen. 1:1).

Let us first look at the fact that God was here before there was the sun, or stars, or even the world! That is hard to imagine, isn't it? In John 1:1-2, it tells us that God was here long before time and before anything we can see today.

Next,  we see that God wanted to create something. So he looked at a ball of dark water and made a plan((Gen. 1:2).  Once he has a plan in his head he started to create or make what was in his plan. But God is not like us. We make things using our bodies. But God has powers to create without his hands. Yes, God is so powerful that all he had to do was say what he wanted to happen and it happened!

God said, "let there be light." And there was light where dark ball of water use to be. Then he divided the light from the darkness. He called the light, "day" and the darkness he called,"night". God did this so that there would be time. Up until he made day & night, there had been no time. That is when the earth had it's first day and time began. Then the first day ended.

Then the next day came. God said, "let the waters divide". Some of the water went into the air & some went below. The water in the air he called, "sky". That is why there are clouds in the sky. Clouds have water in them. Then the second day ended.

The next day after that, God said, "Let the waters part and dry land raise up." And it happened. He called the dry land, "earth" & the waters he called, "seas". God thought that it was good. Then God said, "Let the earth have plants. And trees, grass and all kinds of plants came out of the earth. God thought it was good. This was the end of the third day.

The next morning after that, God said, let there be lights in the sky to shine in the day & the night. He put a big bright light in the sky for the day. And a smaller duller light in the sky, then made the stars to light the night. This is when the earth started having days, months, and seasons. God thought that it was good. That was what happened on the forth day.

On the fifth day,  God said, "let the waters full of living animals. In the sky he put birds to fly in it. In the oceans & seas he put animals there to  swim like fish, and whales. Then he blessed them & told them to have babies, so that they would fill the whole earth with them. That is what happened on the fifth day.

On the sixth day, God said, Let there be animals, and bugs of every size and type to cover the earth." And it happened! Then he told them to make babies, too, so that they would cover all of the earth. But that was not all that God did on the sixth day! Visit me next week to read about the only thing that he touched when he created the earth.

Until then when you look at the sun & moon, and all the plants & animals around you. Remember God created it.

May God bless you until we have another Bible hour.