Good Morning. “And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” (Genesis 2:9) Yesterday we spoke of the Tree...

Good Morning. “And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” (Genesis 2:9) In the midst of the garden, two...

Good Morning. “The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.” (Genesis 2:8) In the previous devotion we mentioned how important it is to plan for what is to be sown in a garden. We emphasized how the Creator expresses...

Good Morning. “The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.” (Genesis 2:8) Any one who has ever gardened successfully understands that it is wise to plan what to plant, where to plant and when to plant; haphazard...

Good Morning. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”  (Genesis 2:7) Some translations render the verse above to say, “and man became a living soul.” The Hebrew word...

Good Morning. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”  (Genesis 2:7) In the prior devotion we emphasized how we must be shaped into the image that God has ordained us to...

Good Morning. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”  (Genesis 2:7) The Hebrew word that is used as “formed” actually means “to squeeze, shape or mold.” It conveys the...

Good Morning. This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not...

Good Morning. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. (Genesis 2:3) Though we understand that after God had created everything, He stopped to rest. However, we also understand that...

Good Morning. Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. (Genesis 2:1-2) The Hebrew word translated as...

Good Morning. “Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” (Genesis 1:31) On most other days in the Creation account we read that God saw “that it was good” but on the sixth day, “it was...

Good Morning. So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply…” (Genesis 1:27-28) From the beginning God intended that mankind was to...