The Dawn - part 2 - God Formed

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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