Verse: Genesis 1:27
Passage: Genesis 1:27-31
Just thinking about Eden gives me an ache in my chest. I find myself wondering about the pure and shimmering quality of life there that somehow slipped through our fingers.
Just picture it. It was nothing to begin with. Nothing. And then God opened his mouth and spoke, and when he did, everything started taking shape. He used his words to make a world! He called forth forces of symmetry, beauty, and great power. He laid boundaries of order and balance and proportion. With the precision of a master clockmaker he set in motion the weights and wheels of a perfect creation. And then, seeing the beauty of his own handiwork, he proclaimed with pride, "Good. Good." And "Very good."
Light, darkness, sky, land, water, winds and tides; plants, trees, sun, moon, stars and planets. And animals--flying, soaring, swimming, loping, crawling, galloping. All things in their vast array he created.
Then finally he created human beings, both male and female--his shining glory, whom he put in charge of it all.
ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURE READINGS:
Psalm8; Psalm 148:1-6; Isaiah 40:25-26; Revelation 4:11
AUTHOR: CLAIRE CLONINGER
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