This tells the story of our magnificent, all-powerful, all knowing, forever existing, triune God creating everything – including all the building blocks that even impact our society today in a matter of six days.  And He did it with just His words. (Jesus is THE Word, He was part of creation. Also see in the beginning verses that the Holy Spirit had a part.)

God created mankind too with his hands and breathed into him the breath of life. Then he took a part of Adam and made a woman. (Adam was very wowed when he first saw her!!)  God placed this pair in the Garden of Delight (what Eden means), to easily take care of it and to eat all the fruit, veggies, and grains that they wanted – just by picking it.

Two special trees were in the garden. The tree of life – which the design of the menorah in later history pictured – and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (NOT evil itself).  And you know “the rest of the story.” Before they hardly got started living there…. before they had any children…. they disobeyed, and now we all bear the imprint of their sin.

I saw a curious fact in their temptation. Compare 1:26-27 with 3:5. How did the serpent twist what Adam and Eve already were?

Oh, LORD, keep me from sinning with my heart, my eyes, and my words today.  You have given me all I need for life and godliness.

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