Genesis: "In the beginning, God..." this is the start of the entire Bible. Sometimes we have a tendency to look through the Bible and want to find out how to be a better person, how to deal with trials, how to be inspired, how to lose weight...we want to find out about ourselves. However, the Bible is not a book about us, it is the story of God. We certainly play a role, but it's not the one we usually think! Genesis informs us right away that all of creation and all of this story is God's. He is the creator, He is the author, He is the hero of this story! The story of Genesis is an unbelievable look into how God created perfectly and how sin twisted what God made good and destroyed God's perfect creation. Genesis also tells us the heart of the Gospel, that this is not the end of the story. That God is building and reshaping and redeeming and renewing a people that one day, what has been destroyed will be made new. And as we look back with awe and wonder, we can look forward with humble confidence that God is not part of our story, but we are a part of His! Welcome to the book of Genesis.

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