In the last post we talked about how God
spoke and the world was created. We can see this in Genesis 1. But towards the
end of Genesis 1 we see the Creation story take a turn to a different type of
creating.
God went from speaking things in to
existence to forming us in to existence.
“So
God created mankind in his
own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created
them.” - Genesis
1:27 NIV
“Then
the Lord God formed a man
from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,
and the man became a living being.” - Genesis 2:7 NIV
These verses put a whole new look on the
creation story. For the longest time I thought Genesis 2 was the next part of
the story. But really Genesis 2 zooms in on how God created us and how the
Garden of Eden became Adam and Eve's home.
Can you picture this? God creating Adam
from the dust of the ground and if He created Adam that way that mean He
created all of us that way! God formed each one of us with His own hands! David
wrote these words in Psalm 139:
“For
you created my inmost being; you knit
me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and
wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well." -
Psalm
139:13-14 NIV
The word knit in the verses points back to
Genesis 2:7. David is pointing back to God being his Creator.
Paul says it like this in Ephesians:
“For
we are God’s masterpiece. He
has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned
for us long ago." - Ephesians 2:10 NLT
A friend of mine says "God doesn't
make junk". This is true. A masterpiece is not junk. A masterpiece is a
creator's best work. So what does that say about us - we are God's best work! (see post Masterpiece)
God formed each of us separately. We
weren't run off of an assembly line with a thousand other models. We were made
one at a time and each different. There is no one like you.
Talk about creativity! God has made amazing
things and spoke some amazing things.
But we were the best of all He created.
Genesis 1 ends with these words:
“God saw all that he had made, and it was
very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.” -
Genesis 1:31
NIV
God, after creating us, said the world was
very good!
Think about that!
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