Genesis

The meaning of the word genesis is origin or mode of formation of something.  I believe the year 2013 is going to be a whole new beginning for our family.  I have a really good feeling about this year. 

We've already begun by visiting my son and his family spending quality time together and putting God first.  We've prayed together and went to church together -- all of this is a new experience for us as a whole family.   We are leading the way for the rest of our family and that is all we can do.  God holds us accountable ourselves.  My prayer this year is that all of us will grow even closer to God than ever before, have all our needs met and see the glory of God in our lives as we obey and follow Him.

Both my husband and I bought new Bibles for this year.  Mine was the simplest version and his was a very indepth study bible. 

I began with the book of Genesis.  It was as if I was reading it for the very fist time as I could almost see God breathing His creative life-giving power into the nostrils of mankind as He fashioned man out of the clay of the earth.  The Hebrew word for  man is adam, which sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew word for ground adamah.  God spoke to my heart revealing the power behind this God-breathed life giving force.  The breath of God was not as you or I would know breath.  This breath the scriptures would speak of would be a creating power -- the power that created the world in the first few verses of Genesis as he formed our world creating and placing stars in the heavens, which he had just created.  This breath had the power in itself to create organs, tissues, bone, brain infusing a soul with a body and breathing spirit into it.  There is so much more to this than just getting out some modeling clay and breathing into some holes in it.  This is God we are talking about -- the One and Only Creator of Life. 

Next God led me to Psalms 145, 146, 147 and 148 -- all of which praise the powerful Creator, our God, who loves us more than we can comprehend.  His word says He is our Maker who longs to show His love to us and provide for us as our Father.  He wants us to praise Him, to rely on Him, to trust on Him and to put our hope in His unfailing love.   Let us exalt Him and praise His name for His splendor is above the earth and heavens.  He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.  The Lord is trustworthy in all His promises and faithful in all He does.    His greatness no one can fathom from one generation to the other, telling of the power of His awesome works and proclaiming His deeds.  He opens His hand and satisfies the desires of every living thing.   He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry, sets prisoners free, gives sight to the blind, heals the brokenhearted and binds their wounds.  Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit.