Genesis 2:10 “Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four river heads.” In the beginning, one river coursed its way through the ancient region called Eden — loosely translated “paradise.” The river watered the trees and other vegetation that grew in the garden that […]
Genesis 2:9 “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.” Yesterday we spoke of the Tree of Life; today […]
Genesis 2:9 “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.” In the midst of the garden, two unique trees […]
Genesis 2:8b “The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.” In the previous devotion we mentioned how important it is to plan for what is to be sown in a garden and we emphasized how the Creator expresses Himself through the process of planting […]
Genesis 2:8a “The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.” Anyone who has ever gardened successfully understands that it is wise to plan what to plant, where to plant and when to plant; haphazard gardening doesn’t always work out so well. The fact that […]
Genesis 2:7c “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.” Some translations render the verse above to say, “and man became a living soul.” The Hebrew word nefeshis most often translated as “soul” and refers to […]
“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and; and man became a living being.” In the prior devotion, we emphasized how we must be shaped into the image that God has ordained us to be. But in this same verse, we […]
Genesis 2:7 “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.” The Hebrew word that is used as “formed” actually means “to squeeze, shape or mold.” It conveys the notion that, as the Master Potter, God took […]
Genesis 2:4-5 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 caused […]
GENESIS 1:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. Though we understand that after God had created everything, He stopped to rest. However, we also understand that His interaction with the creation did not stop. He didn’t lose […]
Genesis 2:1-2 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. The Hebrew word translated as “finished,” and then again as “ended,” […]
Genesis 1:31 “Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” On most other days in the Creation account we read that God saw “that it was good” but on the sixth day, “it was very good.” It is important […]
