by David Keesling | Dec 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Genesis 2:18 “The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’” Observation: God had put Adam into the garden made expressly for their shared intimacy. (Gen. 2:8) He had set the boundaries (vs. 15–17) and then made the...
by David Keesling | Dec 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Genesis 2:8 “Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there He put the man he had formed.” Observation: Genesis 2 begins to give more detail of God’s provision for Adam. Genesis 1:27 tells us that we were created in His image, then this business...
by David Keesling | Dec 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Genesis 2:2 “…on the seventh day He rested from all His work.” (NIV) Observation: God’s first workweek was finished. Creation was complete, so now He rested. Genesis 2:3 tells us more…that it was because He rested that the seventh day was blessed and made holy....
by David Keesling | Dec 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Genesis 1:3 “And God said, ‘Let there be light’, and there was light.” Observation: God created light on earth’s first day. A moment before, the earth had been “formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep…” (Gen. 1:2) But in an instant God spoke...
by David Keesling | Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Genesis 1:28 “Fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Observation: We witness here the sixth day of creation, the day when God commanded the land to “produce living...
by David Keesling | Dec 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Joshua 4:5 “Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder…to serve as a sign among you.” Observation: Multiplied millions of Israelites have entered the Promised Land by crossing the Jordan River, at flood stage, on dry ground. The river passage had dried...
