Genesis 1:1 "In the Beginning God . . ."

Route 66 – Genesis 1:1

“In the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

The first verse on Route 66 through Alliance Redwoods is the first verse in the first book of the Bible.
Genesis begins with a simple statement, “In the beginning God . . .” No argument about whether there is a God or what that God may be like or what He may expect of us—just a simple affirmation that God existed “in the beginning.”

John 1:1-2 says it this way, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning” (NIV84).

When I hike in Yosemite National Park or travel through the back-roads of the United States I wonder how anyone can possibly not know that there is a Creator. So much variety and so much beauty could not possibly have happened by time +chance+nothing. Someone imagined it and then created it. The question we should be asking is not “How did it happen?” The question should be “Who is responsible for this breath taking beauty?”

The answer is found in the very first verse of the Bible and the number one posting of Route 66 . . . “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”  Later in the New Testament book of Hebrews we find these words, "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible" (Hebrews 11:3 NIV84). 

Genesis 1:1 is a simple statement but it is a very important step in our journey of faith. In the beginning God, our Father, spoke a word and the universe we know came into being. That is what men and women of faith believe--and that is the God we worship.