Daily Lesson for January 13, 2014

Today's Lesson from Genesis 2:5-7

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.

The Greek philosophers called God the Unmoved Mover. But Genesis 2 describes Him in a far more intimate way - as a gardener. 

He is working the land, tilling the soil, watering the ground - but not too much. He is readying it for its purpose. 

And when the time is just right He bends down on his knees into the soil and takes a fist-full of dirt. And like a child with PlayDough He takes the dirt and shapes it into the form of a man - nostrils and all.

And then - He breathes. 

God is not a far-off creator who keeps His distance. He was intimately involved in each of our lives from the beginning, and He is still tilling the soil to help us become what we were created to be.

He's the good gardener!