In the beginning ...

Happy New Year! I hope everyone started their Bible reading today. Although you can still catch up today and not be too far behind.

Today's reading is Gen. 1-3.

I love the story of creation. Maybe it's the artist in me that loves the idea of making stuff -- whether it's a painting, a yummy dessert in the kitchen, or a whole new world out of nothing. I love seeing ideas come to life. And I love the father who showed us how that works -- who took this idea of a personal God who's interested in all of creation and made it be.

He thought of everything -- what we'd eat, how we'd live, what we'd wear. And yet it still wasn't enough for Adam and Eve. That sinful and prideful nature to know more, to be the best, was there at the beginning too.

Yet God still loved us. He sent us away from the garden so we wouldn't find the tree of Life and have to live forever in this sinful state. And He already knew that His son would have to die for us. Another part of His grand plan. He really did think of everything.