God has the answer. The great dilemma of the cosmic/Divine drama is now solved. The final chapter of Genesis presents the totally unexpected. Evil does not get the final word. Nor death. Have we yet seen what God can do with death? He creates life!

Can you pass the test? Have we yet learned to discern the power of our expressed "amen"? Abraham is said to have stumbled into it, only to find his footing and walk out a life before God. Watch and see. Listen and hear. You might just hear your own name called by the God of gods. Do you know how to answer?

But what of one man's life? Can God split the chaotic waters within just as the Scriptures claim He accomplished at the beginning? Stride alongside Abram and see. Dare to believe God. You too just might be made whole.

Let's make a name for OURSELVES, they said. God says it's gonna be hard to make a name if nobody understands a word you are saying. And so God stoops down to see their little tall tower and determines afresh to affix His name upon their lives...in time.

The epoch of the Fall is unleashed in the choice of Adam and Eve. But it doesn't end there. Like noxious ink spreading through water, the stain of sin and death seems to color all of creation. And so, God laments. God relents. And God, the Spirit, makes a way by splitting the waters...

Two trees. One fruit. A mighty Fall. BUT! The fragrance of God enters the scene. Hope is not lost. The very essence of death has been overcome. Genesis 3 strikes the match which ignites the doom of creation. But God. God has found a way. All that was meant for evil, God has made for good.

Let there be fire! Oh, what an image that pops off the thin, silky pages of the Bible. The creation account in Genesis is quite thorough. We've already been introduced to earth, wind, and water...watch and see, listen and hear as the crown of God's creation makes FIRE!

What is the point of this little life of ours? It may seem as if something has been lost in the sands of time. Something vitally important. A Lost image. A lost purpose. Peer into the waters of Genesis 1. Reclaim the image! Remember who you are.

So how does a god become THE God? The ancients had

thoughts about this. They had stories about this, stories that predate the writing of the Bible. Look and see as the first four verses of Genesis make their claim!

The book of Genesis is truly a beginning. It begins the story of God, God for us, God with us. It begins the story of a people, the story of us. Because? "In the beginning..."