The story of creation is just the first story of the Biggest Story. In Genesis we will learn that, because of sin, people aren’t very good mirrors. We don’t reflect God very well. But “the Word” (John 1:1) came as “the image of the invisible God” (Col. 1:15). He perfectly showed what God is like, and he made a way for our broken mirrors to be repaired so that we could again do the job God created us to do.

But the Word isn’t just our Savior. He, with the Father and the Spirit, created everything. This is why, when John begins his Gospel, he uses words like the ones in Genesis 1:1. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made” (John 1:1–3). Paul also says of the Son of God that “all things were created, in heaven and on earth, . . . through him and for him” (Col. 1:16). The sun, moon, and stars? Yes! The sea and sky? Yes! The land and plants? Yes! The fish, birds, animals, and humans? Yes! Everything!