Out of nothing God creates everything. Amazing! He created everything in the heavens and on the earth in six days. He didn’t need six days or even six seconds to create everything. He could have done it with one word or in one second. So why did he do it that way? He did it to give us an example of how to live our lives: Six days of work. One day of rest. Now, God doesn’t get tired, so he doesn’t need rest. But we need rest because our bodies get tired, and we also need to spend a day worshiping our Creator God. Oh how God cares for us and knows what we need most!

Now, let’s get back to the six days and go through them one by one. On day one, God created light and he separated the light from the darkness. The light he called day and the darkness night. On day two, he separated the sky from the seas, the clouds above from the oceans below. On day three, he created the land with plants yielding seed and trees bearing fruit. Can you see the apple trees and orange trees, smell the roses, and feel the cactuses? Ouch! (Maybe don’t touch the cactuses.) On days four, five, and six, he filled what he made with more amazing creations: the sun, moon, and stars for the sky; fish for the sea and birds for the sky; and animals and insects on the earth. The North Star was created. The White Tiger. The Bald Eagle. The Black Widow. The Hammerhead Shark. (Watch out for his sharp teeth too!)

God is good. His creation is good.

On the sixth day God’s good creation got even better. God (Father, Son, and Spirit) said, “Let us make man in our image.” God created people: Adam and Eve. A man and a woman. A husband and a wife. And he put these beautiful people in a beautiful place called the garden of Eden. Paradise. Their job, as people made in God’s image, was to show what God was like (sort of like a mirror shows you what you look like) and to grow a family that would go everywhere and also show what God was like (“be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth,” Gen. 1:28). What a perfect beginning to the beginning.

God is very good. And so, people are very good. Just like a mirror, we show how very good God is. So tremendously terrific!