Feb
26
2010
Chronological Bible Reading in a year – Day 1 Genesis 1-3
Author: pastoroffishingDay 1 Reading of Genesis 1:1-3:24
The recount of the Creation story always stirs my soul. We see the intention of a purity started by God and set in motion that truly gives us this sense of wonder and awe. Chapter 1 creates an image of an inventor in my mind. God is inventing this whole experience before him. Setting up all the items that need to be in place to keep Creation running. It reminds me of setting up a fish tank and how you have to go in certain orders to make it all work right. You can’t just put fish in without the water, and the plants, and the stones and the filter and all the other things in place for the fish to survive. If you set up a tank right and with the right fish everything can just run on its own…very little maintenance.
The order and the method that God works for the start of creation is mind blowing to me. All the attention to the detail in how it all will flow. All the possibilities accounted for in a sequence of events that will forever change the existence of Creation. I can understand why scientists think there was a big bang…imagine the force that was unleashed into existence by the snapping of God’s fingers to create light? The massive amount of energy that flowed out to start the universe would be cataclysmic. It truly would be a big bang!
What about the day of rest? This always has intrigued me. God takes a day to rest…a time where He is not working just kicking back and doing what? Enjoying Creation? I wonder if He walked around like you do in Google Earth? It would be interesting to see it in action.
As the serpent approaches Eve we get this very distinct image of just how harsh the next steps will be. Every time I read this account I want to just cry out to Eve, “DON’T DO IT!”. The slow motion of the , “NOOOOOO” just never works. Adam and Eve lose their innocence. So often with youth I see this happen. It could be sexual interactions, drugs, alcohol, or whatever it may be that robs them of their innocence. From then on they see the world with different eyes.
This story also shows how man tries to hide their sin from God. How we think we aren’t being seen when we truly are. Even now after all we have learned from God we still try to do this as man. What we do sometimes in our feeble attempts instead of just living within the spirit.
It is interesting in Genesis 3:22 how man became like “them”. Its interesting that through this knowledge we are no longer just an image but we are like. We now have lost our purity…it all changed.
