Genesis - putting the puzzle pieces together

The best way to understand what a book is about is usually revealed in the first few chapters. The author wants you to invest in the main character so you will form some kind of attachment to them. Your eye will naturally begin to drift towards what they are doing, and all of the plot points revolve around what is going on with the main character. Or... at least that's what happens in books than man writes.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. Genesis 1:2

Then the Lord God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever -" Therefore the Lord God set him out of the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. Genesis 1:22-23

From this point on, the whole story gets a little skewed. The Bible, which is a story about God, and His love for man, the promises that He makes to us, His calling out to be loved is overshadowed by a secondary character... man.

Sometimes, we're guilty of that too. We are so consumed in our lives that we forget that it is not our story. It's God's story. He has a plan.

"Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you will I curse, and in you all families of the earth shall be blessed." Genesis 12:1-3

Abram, who later became Abraham only had one son. As we read on, we find out that the great nation that God is talking about does not just extend to those who are related by birth, but to those who have been adopted into God's family... those that make up a nation of priests and kings.


But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (1 Peter 2:9-10 ESV)

Let's try to live our life in that context today... that it's God's story. Let us ask Him what his plan is, what His desires are. God is patience and sometimes it takes years for Him to do something as seemingly insignificant as give one man one son... and make a great nation. Abraham died only having one son... but he believed God was faithful to fulfill the promise that God mad to him.

What has God asked you to do... and what are you doing about it?