His Story: A journey through the greatest story of all time
The Bible isn’t just an old book—it’s God’s story, and it’s still alive today. His Story takes you chapter by chapter through Scripture, combining simple readings of God’s Word with prayer for every listener and occasional reflections on what the passage means for our lives right now.
Whether you’re brand new to the Bible or have been reading it for years, this podcast is a space to slow down, hear God’s Word spoken, and be reminded that His story is also our story.
His Story: A journey through the greatest story of all time
The Divine Blueprint: Exploring God's Intentional Design
God spoke, and reality sprang into existence. Genesis 1 opens the greatest story ever told with a powerful revelation of God as the eternal source of everything—deliberate, ordered, and good. This ancient text reveals a Creator who brings perfect order from nothingness, crafting a universe with intentional design rather than random chance.
What strikes us most profoundly is the creation of humanity in the imago dei—the image of God. Unlike any other creature, humans bear the divine imprint in every cell. This explains our innate drive to create—whether through art, music, business, or family. We're never more aligned with our divine design than when we're creating, mirroring the God who spoke worlds into existence. When you write a story, build a home, or compose a song, you're expressing this fundamental aspect of being God's image-bearer.
The creation account contains fascinating details that reshape our understanding. Before sin entered the world, both humans and animals were vegetarians, sustained by the vegetation God provided. Death and animal consumption emerged only after the Fall—a reminder of how sin disrupted God's perfect design. Yet even now, creation testifies to God's glory everywhere we look. From the stars above to the intricate design of our bodies, His fingerprints remain visible.
Understanding Jesus as the agent of creation (as confirmed in John 1) transforms how we see Him. The One who formed galaxies is the same One who formed our hearts. The hands that stretched out the heavens are the same hands that were stretched out on the cross for us. He creates with purpose, and that includes you. Nothing about your existence is accidental or insignificant.
Subscribe to His Story as we continue exploring how Jesus wrote the greatest story ever told—a story that includes His complete love for you and me. Join us Friday as we turn to Psalm 8, where David gazes at the night sky and marvels at God's care for humanity.
The Bible isn’t just an old book—it’s God’s story, and it’s still alive today. His Story takes you chapter by chapter through Scripture, combining simple readings of God’s Word with prayer for every listener and occasional reflections on what the passage means for our lives right now.
Whether you’re brand new to the Bible or have been reading it for years, this podcast is a space to slow down, hear God’s Word spoken, and be reminded that His story is also our story.
Welcome back to His Story, a journey through the greatest story of all time. Today we're turning to the very first chapter of the Bible, genesis 1, god created. This verse confronts us with God as the eternal source of everything. Creation was deliberate, it was ordered, it was good. God's word creating life connects directly to Christ as the word. Why begin with God as creator? Why is creation good? How does this prepare us for God as creator? Why is creation good? How does this prepare us for Christ as creator? Let's pray and then jump into the word together. God, we thank you so much for this day that you've given us, for this week, for this life that you've given us. God, I pray that we would never forget that you are the source of everything. I pray that today's passage in Genesis would reignite a spark in our soul to know you, eternal God and eternal creator. Thank you again for this day. Help us to rejoice and be glad in it. In Jesus name, we pray Amen. In Jesus' name we pray Amen. In the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said Let there be light. And there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God said and let it separate the waters from the waters. And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so, and God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning. The second day, and God said Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place and let the dry land appear. And it was so. God called the dry land earth. He said trees bearing fruit, in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth. And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit, in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning.
Speaker 1:The third day, and God said Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth. And it was so. And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars. And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth to rule over the day and over the night and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day, and God said Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens. So God created the great sea creatures and every living creatures that move, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good and God blessed them, saying Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters and the seas and let birds multiply on the earth. And there was evening and there was morning the fifth day, and God said Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds, livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds. And it was so, and God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Then 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 birds of the heavens, and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God. He created them, male and female. He created them. God blessed them and God said to them Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth. And God said Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food To every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life. I have given every green plant for food. And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made and, behold, it was very good, and there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Speaker 1:The Word of God, genesis 1, shows God's intentional design. It shows the order, it shows the sequencing how God created the celestial bodies, how he divided the waters, how he made light from darkness, how he set light over darkness different times of the day, how he created the plants, how he created the animals, all according to its kind, to have order and not chaos. There's intentional design to it. There's and not chaos. There's intentional design to it. There's intentionality to everything that God does. Creation was an overflow of his glory, not a necessity.
Speaker 1:God didn't need to create the universe.
Speaker 1:He chose to, and as a part of that, he chose to create human beings in his image, in what we call the Imago Dei. Human beings are the only of God's creation to carry his imprint in every cell of our body. We have the Imago Dei, the image of God. I think about this a lot when I think about what I enjoy doing and what so many other people enjoy doing, and that is creating things. We write books and songs, and we make movies and we make paintings, and we create businesses, we create families. All of these are things that we have envisioned in our minds and then we create them. We are never more like God, we are never more exemplifying the Imago Dei than when we are creating, because that's who God is.
Speaker 1:He chose to create the universe and in creating us with his image, with his implant on our lives, we too are creators, and that's why we get so much joy out of creating that which God has put into our mind, which, again, could be just about anything, could be a family, children, a home, a business, a song, a movie, a book, a painting, a sculpture, a car. We love to create because we are created in the image of God, and God declared creation very good. Everything that God created was good, it was perfect, it was without sin. In fact, one thing I've always noticed about Genesis 1 is that the food that God gave for everybody, for the animals and for us humans, was all in the vegetation. So I guess we were all vegetarians before Adam's sin vegetation. So I guess we were all vegetarians before Adam sinned. Once Adam sinned and atonement was required, that's when death emerged for the first time. It's an interesting fact, but I guess we were all vegetarians from the very beginning.
Speaker 1:In that regard, there's so much here in understanding and understanding God's goodness and how he creates with intentionality, with order. When he tells Jeremiah in later books of the Bible that I know the plans that I have for you, it's because God is a God who plans. Nothing is by surprise, nothing is by chance and nothing surprises him. He is a God of intentionality and a God of order. As you think about this chapter, we can see that Genesis 1 calls us to see creation as the theater of God's glory. Where do you see his fingerprints when you look around this world and your daily life and the people around you and the stars above you and the trees overhanging? Where do you see the fingerprint of God and what he has created in our world?
Speaker 1:And then, secondly, how does knowing Jesus as creator change how you see him? You know a lot of people give God the credit for creating and, yes, we do believe in a triune God with three persons God the father, god the son, who is Jesus, and God, the Holy spirit throughout the Bible, as you're going to see in other passages as well, including the one we read on Monday in John 1. Jesus is responsible for creating everything. That's who he is. When he came to earth, we got to see a perfect reflection of God in human form. How does that change how you see him? Maybe it helps you understand yourself better. Maybe it helps you understand our desire to know God, our desire to have fellowship with God.
Speaker 1:Let's go ahead and pray, god, we thank you so much for today's passage, for today's reading in Genesis 1, of how you created everything, the way that we see it the universe, the sun, the moon, the stars, our incredible planets that you've created to sustain life, our bodies, which are able to process the very oxygen that you made and that you are able to capture in this atmosphere that we have so that we can breathe it. God, we see it everywhere around us. We thank you so much for your creation, for your intentionality and for what that says about we see it everywhere around us. We thank you so much for your creation, for your intentionality and for what that says about us, that you created us with the same detail and the same intentionality.
Speaker 1:Nobody is here by accident. May we remember that and never forget that and live our lives accordingly. Thank you again for your word. Thank you for providing for all of our needs every day. In Jesus name, we pray Amen. In our next episode dropping. Friday we'll open Psalm 8, where David looks up at the heavens and marvels at God's care until next time, remember. Jesus wrote the greatest story ever told, and that includes loving you and me completely. See you next time.
