One thing is easy to see in this "beginning": God is careful... full of care. He provides everything, then, and only then, puts man in the Garden. What a good Father.

So, what is this all about? Why are we here? Why did our Creator create? Why us? Why everything else?

The answer the Scripture provides can be traced back to the "beginning". Our origins discovered in vv1.26-27 meet with v2.7 today to form the answer to the "Why?" question.

But knowing the answer and living it out are two very different things. More on that in the coming weeks. For now, revel in your Maker's sovereign will and design for your life. If you're living for, centered on, seeking after any lesser glory than the one for which you were made... you're not living on purpose, but on a fast track for lifelessness.

Today's passage:

4 These are the generationsof the heavens and the earth when they were created,in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.5 When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, 6 and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— 7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. -Genesis 2.4-7 (esv)