Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.“I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me”? Jeremiah 32:17,27.
When you are young, you’re always learning and growing. We should always keep learning and growing even if we’re 90 years old!
Do you like to draw and put things together?
Do you like to ride a bike? Learning is an adventure.
And what about books and learning to read?
We love books. They take us to other places.
Can dogs sit and read with you or join you in your Lego or train play?
No way. They’re animals. They can’t learn to read.
In the Bible, the first Book is called Genesis, we can read that “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).
God is all-powerful. He’s all-knowing. He’s Everywhere at one time. “My God is So big, so strong, and so mighty, there’s nothing our God cannot do, for you.” This is true. Do you know this?
We learn this from our Bibles. It is truly Good News for all who will believe.
God created animals and man on the 6th day. But Adam, (the first man) and Eve, (the first woman), the Bible tells us were created
In His own image.
In the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them Genesis 1:27.
The image of God? What makes us different than the animals? As we already mentioned, we can build with Legos or read a book. We know that animals can’t join us in these things, except to get in the middle of it all and make a mess of it all.
We have eyes that can see, but we know an eagle can see much better than people. How about our noses? We love to smell pizza or homemade bread, but dogs can smell amazingly better than people.
What about our hearing? Well, it is found that the moth hears best of all created creatures, as well as the elephant. This makes sense because Elephants have huge ears, but moths? Yes, they hear the sound best of all the creatures.
But think about the human hand. Think of all the things you can do with your hands. Talk about them for a bit.
When we think of amazing hands, the Bible is a huge Book that reveals the greatest of hands, unlike any other. God’s hands. And God let us see His hands, even though we can’t see God,
God gave His only Son to us. He came from heaven to earth to show us God’s ways, to walk the earth with us. Do you know who I’m talking about?
Yes, Jesus came to earth to heal and to touch hurting people, but most importantly,
Jesus came to willingly pay a debt we owed. Do we owe a debt?
Yes, on the first 2 pages of the Bible, we learn the glorious beginnings of the creation of everything including Adam and Eve, (Genesis 1 & 2).
And God created all the beautiful plants for the animals and Adam and Eve to eat. In fact, they could eat from every tree in the garden,
except one. Or they would die. All the fruit is good for food, except the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. You can read it in the Bible:
But the LORD God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden— except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die Genesis 2:16-17.
But Eve was right there by the One Tree.
And who else was there? A serpent.
He asked Eve, “Did God really say you can’t eat from this tree?
Yes, God did say. But Eve didn’t know God’s Word well, and she was tricked by the serpent and she ate the forbidden fruit. And then, Adam outright disobeyed what God had told him and he ate too. (Read Genesis 3 for this complete story).
Then Adam and Eve realized, they were naked and they were ashamed. They never were ashamed before. They didn’t know they were naked. But now they do. And they hid from God.
Who told you that you were naked?” the LORD God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat? Genesis 3:11.
Adam and Eve had covered themselves in some itchy leaves.
But God covered them. With the skins of an innocent animal, He covered their nakedness.
Right here in Genesis, the first Book of the Bible, God’s Word, we see a picture of Jesus and how He paid a debt and “covered” our sin. He is the “Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.” How do we know?
The Bible tells us so: John the Baptist in the New Testament, when he saw Jesus coming, said, Behold the Lamb of God!
Yes, He is more than a covering for the disobedience, shame, and guilt we all have. He paid our “Sin debt” in full.
Jesus willingly gave His life. He stretched out His hands for you and me. For everyone who will believe in Him, (an invitation to every person on this planet) will receive from the glorious hands of God, Eternal life. Life now and forevermore.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life..
For God did not send His Son into the world the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through Him John 3:16 & 17.
Jesus is the Lamb of God who died in our place. He is God the Son. He didn’t stay dead. He rose again on the third day. This is the good news. There’s so much to learn in our Bibles.
Now we can better understand verse 2 of Jesus Loves Me:
Jesus loves me, He who died. Heaven’s gate to open wide. He will wash away my sin. Let His little child come in. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me, the Bible tells me so.
Faith is believing. Believing God.
If you don’t have faith, ask God to give you a willing heart to receive His invitation of love and grace.
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I hope you know even better how Jesus really, truly loves you, especially you.