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God’s Love: Creation

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Love has become a word that gets thrown around these days without much thought. I love cake, I love that dress, or I love this phone. However, love is an action and often times we fail to put that “love” into action.  God’s love, in contrast, is filled with action.  In numerous scriptures we are told that the foundation of God’s love is shown through the action of sending His Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for us.

1 John 4:9-10 New International Version (NIV)

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

His love for us is also seen through His creation. His creation is His work of love for us (Psalm 119:64).

64 The earth is filled with your love, Lord;
    teach me your decrees.

In all actuality, God created you to love you! Just a little reminder from scripture, it is very clear humans are the focal point and masterpiece of God’s creation.

God created you very good

     God created everything in 6 days.  After each day of creation God saw that what He had made was good.  Yet, after God had created everything – especially man and woman, He saw that all He had created was very good.  God creating humans made His creation very good.  You are very good in God’s eyes!  Genesis 1:31 says,

And God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. ®

In Genesis 1 and 2 it is obvious that His creation is His work of love for us! If you doubt this, as you read Genesis 1 and 2, make the creation story personal to yourself. You can do this by asking yourself, “Why did He create that for me?”  Example: God created the sun so I can delight in its warmth and light on chilly days.)

At one time in my life I thought I was worthless. I later realized from Genesis that I was very good in God’s sight.  The word “very” means exceedingly.  The word “good” is defined by many positive words. Some of the positive words are: beautiful, delightful, pleasant, glad, precious, correct, excellent, lovely, convenient, joyful, fruitful, secure, kind, and righteous. What if someone who loved you wrote you a letter using these words to express what they thought about you?  How would you feel?  Remember, these words are what God thinks about you!  Take a few minutes and think of that fact. 

Answer the question, “What do you really think of yourself?”  Take some time with this question. Use your journal if you want. Ask the Spirit to search your heart and mind, so you can answer truthfully. Be specific.

Take some of the positive words from above that define the word “good”.  Describe how that word applies to your life with God.  (Examples: I am beautiful to God because He called me very good in Genesis 1.  I am convenient to God, not an inconvenience as my childhood family led me to believe.)

You are very good in God’s eyes and that is the truth!  Since you are very good in God’s eyes, how should you think of yourself? Use God’s Word to answer this question if you can.