Day 1: 90-Day Bible Challenge

Day 1: 90-Day Bible Challenge

Today’s reading:
Genesis 1:1- Genesis16:16

A thought or two:
I personally believe that there is a verse in today’s reading that is one of the most important verses in the Bible! That verse is Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”

Why do I believe that verse is so important that I would have a personal conviction that it more important than many other popular memory verses, because if I can have enough faith to believe this verse, I should have enough faith in God to trust Him for anything, right?

In the beginning God created…
Okay, those first few words are a crazy thought to wrap your mind around. So you mean to tell me that before there was time, before there were stars and planets, before there were organic life forms, there was God…existing in eternity… no beginning and no end. It is hard for me to wrap my mind around the concept of Someone Who exists eternally without beginning and need, because for me eternity has been 29 years that was marked with a beginning (my birthday). My beginning or my creation marks the moment I entered into time and began to function under natural laws (science in other words). God isn’t natural, He is supernatural because God is uncreated, He has no beginning and that is amazing!

…God created the heavens and the earth
So the God that is uncreated begins to create. He does this by speaking and by virtue of the authority of His Words things that formerly did not exist were commanded to exist. There was no light until He said let there be light. There was no oceans, no mountains, no people, no animals, no stars, no plants, etc. until He said let there be…and then there was.

Knowing that God is uncreated, supernatural, and able to defy the laws of nature that He set into motion with the authority of His Words, I know that absolutely nothing is too hard for God. In today’s reading you will read about a paradise where man lived in harmony with everything in nature before sin, a flood that flooded the entire earth, the tower of Babel, and the adventures of Abraham. None of these stories are too farfetched for a God that existed before time and created everything through Words!

If you can believe Genesis 1:1 all bets are off as far as what we can believe what God can and cannot do!

Tomorrow’s reading:
Genesis 17:1-28:19