-One- In the Beginning

Today’s Reading: Genesis 1

Focal Verse: Genesis 1:26a

“Let us make man in Our image”

Do you ever marvel at the intricacy of the world God created for us? Day by day, He lovingly crafted together all that we would need to sustain life…and then He put it into the hands of man.
Why man? Why not the birds, or the sea creatures, or cattle? Did man do anything to deserve supreme authority over the earth? Did God just make man “better” than the others? Did He just finally “get it right”? We read again and again as He created each thing that God “saw that it was good.” In verse 31 we read “Then God saw everything that He had made and indeed it was very good”. Then, why man? Why was it that God said, “Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. ”?
It was purely, simply grace. It was God’s desire to take His incredible creation and put it into the hands of His choosing and into the hands of someone who had not done anything to earn it.



Spend time this day observing and marveling over the intricacies of God’s creation. Thank Him for it.