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Sunday... He did it. This is so important for us to see as we start a new year. Yes, I believe God did it.

I have started reading in this New Year the first book of the Bible, the book of Genesis. It is such an important book.

Now the beginning part of the book is very controversial because of what is stated in 1:1. People are constantly striving to prove that this verse is wrong. No way could it happen so they throw it aside and read portions of the Bible and pick up nuggets of truth but it really doesn't mean anything if you don't believe verse 1.

Here is what it says (NLT), "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Now the first phrase in Genesis 1:1 is so important in believing the Bible and in starting a new year. It says, "In the beginning God..." If you pass over that and don't acknowledge it as truth then you are all on your own in living this new year. Saying in the beginning me, has so many problems attached to it.

So how can, "In the beginning God" be true? And that is a good question and has to be believed by faith.  Man has done their best to prove that it is false. Now there are many, many facts that have been given to show it to be true and to be false. I am on the side of believing it to be true. And in my 73 years I have seen it to be true, over and over and over. I believe it and live by it and will live by it today and the rest of the month and through this new year. 

Let me go out on a limb here, I believe that God created the heavens and the earth. I believe it because I believe in God and I believe in His Word and those are two absolutes that I have built my life on. 

Now I am not here to prove how it was done. I have some thoughts about it but that is not what I am dealing with here. The How is not as important to me as the Who. The Who is who I have build my life on. The Who is the one I follow, the Who is the one I believe is in my heart and living out through me and guiding me and empowering me and watching over me and who died for me.

And that is why I believe this verse is the foundation of my life. I believe absolutely, without reserve that God was here before all of this started and is here now and will be here for all that it to come and that someday I will personally be with in heaven. 

So in the beginning of 2021, God! I am basing my life on that being true and that is today's beginning. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

 

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