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Genesis 1:1–5 – God creates light

What happens: God creates the heavens and the earth. The world is formless and dark. God speaks light into existence, separates light from darkness, and names them day and night.

What it means: God’s word creates and orders reality. He is sovereign, wise, and purposeful. Light shows God’s goodness breaking into chaos and sets the rhythm of time for life and worship.

Genesis 1:6–8 – Sky formed

What happens: God makes an expanse and separates waters above from waters below. He calls the expanse heaven.

What it means: God places boundaries in creation. Order serves life and reveals His care. Creation is not random but structured under God’s rule.

Genesis 1:9–13 – Land and plants

What happens: God gathers the waters so dry land appears. He calls the land earth and the waters seas. He brings forth vegetation and fruit trees that bear seed.

What it means: God provides a stable home and food. The built-in seed shows design and ongoing provision. God’s creation is good and suited for life.

Genesis 1:14–19 – Sun, moon, and stars

What happens: God sets lights in the sky to mark days, seasons, and years. The greater light rules the day and the lesser the night. He also makes the stars.

What it means: Times and seasons are gifts for order and worship. The heavenly bodies serve God’s purposes; they are not gods. God rules over all powers.

Genesis 1:20–23 – Sea creatures and birds

What happens: God fills the waters with living creatures and the skies with birds. He blesses them to be fruitful and multiply.

What it means: Life is God’s generous gift. His blessing increases abundance. God delights in variety and fills His world with movement and sound.

Genesis 1:24–27 – Land animals and humanity

What happens: God makes animals of the earth. He creates mankind in His image, male and female, to rule over creation.

What it means: Humans bear God’s likeness and have dignity and purpose. Stewardship is a holy calling under God’s authority. Male and female are equal in worth and designed for partnership.

Genesis 1:28–31 – Blessing and food

What happens: God blesses humans to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. He gives plants for food. God sees all He made and calls it very good.

What it means: Blessing empowers mission. God provides for human needs and sets limits. Creation’s goodness reflects God’s character and invites thankful obedience.

Application

  • Start your day by trusting God’s word to bring order to your life.
  • Treat people with dignity because they bear God’s image.
  • Steward resources wisely; creation is entrusted, not owned.
  • Receive daily provision with gratitude and contentment.

Bible

1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

15And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

17And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

19And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

30And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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