Category: Genesis
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Day 001: Formless and Empty (Genesis 1)
Genesis 1:2 describes creation as “formless and empty.” Why? More than mechanics, the text emphasizes God’s character: the One who brings order from chaos can do the same in your life.
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Day 342: Counting Stars With Aging Eyes (Romans 4:18-21; Genesis 15:5)
Abraham was an old man with tired eyes when God told him to count the stars. Thousands of years later, even with telescopes that peer to the edge of the universe, we’re no closer to numbering them. And maybe that’s the point: God calls us to trust promises we cannot yet see.
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Four Gardens (A Poem for Easter)
Once, in the cool of the day, God walked into a Garden; Where a serpent hissed, and man hid, and half eaten fruit lay fallen on the ground. Adam, where are You? said the Father. And the man was driven out of the Garden, head down, condemned. Once, in the dead of night, Jesus walked…
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Day 029: A Grievous Mourning by the… Egyptians? (Genesis 50:7-11)
When Jacob’s sons returned to Canaan to bury their father, the people of the land assumed they were Egyptians. In less than a generation, God’s people had become indistinguishable from the culture around them—a quiet warning about how easily freedom can forget its true home.
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Day 028: From Jacob to Israel and Back to Jacob (Genesis 46:2)
A Spurgeon Snapshot That night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” he said. And Jacob replied, “Here I am.””Genesis 46:2 CSB Even though God changed Jacob’s name to Israel way back in Genesis 32 (see Day 023: Wrestling With God (Genesis 32:24-29), the text switches back and forth between the two names…
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Day 027: Silver in the Sack (Genesis 43:23)
Through the Bible: Genesis 43-45