Day 1: Genesis 1-3

Well, here we go. I am going to do a different version this year: Eugene Peterson's The Message. It may make the chronological reading plan a little bit of a challenge because verses aren't marked, but it should work out. I am excited to be starting over and I am anxious to see what God is going to show me this time!

I am just really amazed with the concept of "speaking" things into existence. Yeah, I speak and tell people to do things and they get done, but this is actually creating something with the words from God's mouth! How can you not be amazed with that idea????

I am also struck with how God immediately cared for Adam and Eve after he told them what their punishment would be after eating from the tree of knowledge. "God made leather clothing for Adam and his wife and dressed them." Already we begin to see God's great mercy towards us, even in our fallen condition.