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It was so

"And it was so."
That sentence at the end of Genesis 1:9 resonated with me as I was reading Genesis 1 tonight.
God spoke the earth, the universe and everything in it into existence and it was so. He said it and it happened. Done.

Have you ever stood in front of something so majestic that you really understood just how finite you are? There is so much more out there... Around the world... Across the universe. We are truly just a minute piece of something so much bigger.

And it was so.

Think of the stars that stretch across the galaxy--so numerous that we can't even count them all.
Think of the all the sea creatures we have yet to discover because they live so deep.
Think of all the snowflakes that fall and how delicate their individual patterns appear under a microscope.

And it was so.

The details, the intricacies, the mysteries and the beauty--all simply breathed into existence.

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good." (Genesis 1:27, 31a)
And it was so...













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