“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:11In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)). This earth that you are standing on right now had its very beginning when God created it.
Created means that God started with nothing, and He made the whole world out of nothing at all. That’s impossible, isn’t it? But do you remember this verse from the Bible? “With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible” (Mark 10:2727And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible. (Mark 10:27)). God just spoke, and it was done!
You may have a very good teacher in school who tells you about evolution, but God is far more skillful than that. God comes first. God knows, and when He speaks, nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it!
God created the heavens and the earth, and you may be quite sure that Satan did not like this at all. He could not create anything.
God prepared the earth for His creatures. He chose to do it one day at a time, and every little bit shows that He loves His creatures. The first day God said, “Let there be light: and there was light” (Genesis 1:33And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. (Genesis 1:3)). Nobody but God could do that. And God called the light “day,” and He called the darkness “night.” There was no sun or moon, but, of course, God can make light or darkness anywhere, because He is God.
On the second day, God made the fresh air come between the clouds and the seas. Aren’t you glad He did that? That was the second day.
On the third day, God made the dry land come up from the ocean, so that we could have a place to live and walk. And He made grass and trees with fruit and seeds to grow more and more. We can study all this, but we couldn’t make it happen. Only God could.
Then on the fourth day, God made two great lights and put them in the sky. And I know you are glad they are there! That was 6,000 years ago, and the sun and moon are still shining, one during the day and one during the night. And there’s been no change, because God planned it right the first time. He made the stars also.
Stars? There are millions of them, all sizes and distances from the earth. God made them by speaking a word, just like that! All the telescopes in the world have never found the end of the stars. And besides that, He gave every star a name! What a Creator God we have!
On the fifth day, God created all kinds of birds and fish, flying or swimming, all shapes and sizes and colors. And every single one was just right for where God placed it to live. And God blessed them in a way that He never blessed grass and trees.
Then came that wonderful sixth day. God made beasts and creeping things and cattle, but there was one more creation He wanted—the very highest of all. God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness” (Genesis 1:2626And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:26)). That puts you and me in a very high place in God’s perfect plan. We are to have dominion over fish, birds, cattle and creeping things.
So God created man in His own image, male and female, and spoke to them, which He had not done with any of the others. He told them, “Be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:2828And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:28)), and that’s why we have babies growing up to be men and women. God also said we were to have control over all the rest of creation.
We hope you will read this account in Genesis 1 and remember that God is very much wiser than anybody He ever created.
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