Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

God Simply IS

The Bible does not begin with a long set of arguments to prove the existence of God. God has no cause; He just is, and He always has been. By contrast, everything else in the universe began somewhere; God made it all.

God is a Talking God

He spoke it and it came to pass. Once Adam and Eve are made, He actually addresses them and gives them
responsibilities. However great or transcendent God is, He is a God of interaction!

Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

God who existed had a plan. He created and caused it to happen. We can know about God by looking at His creation.

God Created Out of Nothing

Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

It is a divine word of command that brings into existence what it expresses. Throughout Scripture the Word of God is characteristically both creative and effective: it is the prophetic word that declares the future and helps it come into being.

The phrase, “And it was so”, the exact echoing of the Command, emphasizes the total fulfillment of the divine word.

Colossians 1:16 For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.

2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved to fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

We do not exist in a closed system. God is involved and He will come again in judgment. This statement establishes God is involved and He moves things along in His plan.

As we talk about things that happened a long time ago we are limited, as only the bible gives clear revelation of long past events. It gives us true knowledge, although not exhaustive knowledge. In fact, we humans often cannot effectively handle exhaustive knowledge.

The bible keeps the focus on the main thing: man and his restoration to God. Contrary to what others propose, the bible goes hand in hand with science—proven science, not theory.

Everything God Created Was Good

Everything God makes is good, very good. As the biblical account progresses, we discover
that there is no hint in Genesis 1–2 of death or decay, malice, hate, arrogance, pride, or destruction.
God created the world for the sake of the fullness of the divine plan. Thus creation must be the enduring basis for all divine action.

The created order is not a first act; it is the enduring stage upon which the entire divine drama unfolds.
Everything is very good. Regardless of all the difficulty, we have understanding of God’s ultimate sovereignty in a world where there is suffering and evil.

God Creates, Rests, & Specializes a Day

Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.

God comes to an end of His creative work, and He rests. That is, He stops doing His work of creation. He rests and designates this seventh day in a special way.

Although the seventh day is not called the Sabbath, God “blessed” and “hallowed” it.

The seventh day is the very first thing to be hallowed in Scripture, to acquire that special status that properly belongs to God alone. In this way, Genesis emphasizes the sacredness of the Sabbath. Coupled with the threefold reference to God resting from all His work on that day, these verses give a clear hint
of how man, created in the divine image, should conduct himself on the seventh day.

Genesis 1 & 2 constitute the necessary background to Genesis 3. Without understanding how good everything is, we cannot fully grasp what happens in the next chapter, which depicts what is sometimes called “the fall,” the onset of massive rebellion.

Celebrate and thank God today for His Creation, His Sovereignty, & His Goodness. He is there!