7 - "The First Prayer Recorded in the Bible" Genesis 13:4

Abram called on the name of the Lord.  Genesis 13:4 NIV

Abram trusted in the Unknown. Lot chose the earth to be good to him. 

6 - "Do Not Live to Make a Name for Yourself" Genesis 11:4

Come, let us build ourselves a city,

with a tower that reaches to the heavens,

so that we may make a name for ourselves.

Genesis 11:4 NIV

Unspoken pressure in our celebrity society exists to make a name for yourself.

5 - "Live to Cover Not to Expose" Genesis 9:23

"And Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders,                                                                                                            and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father;                                                                     and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.           Genesis 9:23 NIV

Live to cover not to expose.

4 - “The Lord Shut Me In” Genesis 7:16

 “They went in [the ark] male and female of all flesh

as God had commanded him;

and the Lord shut him in.” Genesis 7:16 NIV

Catalytic. Castrophic Flood over the whole earth. Has the Lord shut us in to make us holy? 

3 - “The Questions of the Bible” Genesis 4:6

“Then the Lord said t Cain,

Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast?” Genesis 4:6

Why is my face going limp? Because I am not where I thought I would be both in story and soul. 

Lord have mercy. 

2 - “God Broods Over Our Lives” Genesis 1:2

 “Now the earth was formless and empty,

darkness was over the surface of the deep, and 

the Sprit of God was hovering over the waters.” Genesis 1:2 NIV

A brooding God. A soundless moment. A spoken word and a world painted not for our curiosity but for our very souls to know that He is our Creator. And He still hovers today.

 

1 - “And We Were Born in His Thoughts” Genesis 1:1

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 NIV

God moved over a burgeoning darkness and gave Energy to a nascent world.

And, we were born in His Thoughts.