OCTOBER 1, Genesis 1: 1-5

The beginning - have you wondered how everything you see around you came about? It is very, very important for you to know your roots. The Bible tells us our roots, our beginning.There are many theories saying things opposed to the Bible. Don’t be swayed by wrong teachings, read on and find out for yourself how all things began.

Imagine you are having the yummy fried chicken your mum makes for lunch. You ask yourself, where did all these come from? Before your mother cooked them, she most likely bought fresh chicken from the supermarket. Before the chickens reach the supermarket, they were alive and perhaps running around in the coops.The chicken were obviously chicks which grew. But where did the first chicken come from? According to Genesis, from God!

Look at the homes you live in.The walls are made from bricks. Bricks came from the clay of God’s ground. The wooden furniture such as the chairs, tables and cupboards came from the wood of the trees which God had created. Everything came from God because God made all things.

When did God make all things? “In the beginning…” According to bible history, that is slightly over 6,000 years. In the beginning, the earth was “without form and void”, empty of the wonderful nature and oceans and wildlife of today. It was also totally dark and so God created light – the sun, and God also created the moon. As we measure the hours of a day by the rising and setting of the sun, we may say that God made time this day. Heaven, earth and light were created on the first day.

How did God create? When you make a birthday card for your friend, you take time to make it. You write on it, color it, paste stickers and a host of other stuff to make it nice and lovely. However, when God made things in the 6 days of Creation, He just needed to speak, and things came into existence! By speaking, God created. Amazing, but true. God had created everything out of nothing. When you make the card, you need things to make it but everything that God had created came from nothing. This is just so, so amazing. Wow! Think of it, God’s way of creating things was simply stupendous!

Thought: God is the Creator of all!

Prayer: Heavenly Father, thank You for making all things. Because You are the Maker, You are in control of all things. So I can put my trust in You. Help me simply to trust in You. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.