Hello everyone, It's Aunt Frenita
Today's story is called
God's Mirror Image
The memory verse is from Genesis Chapter 1, verse 27
It says
God created man in His own image,
male and female, He created them.
Today's message is we praise God
for creating us
All week, God had been busy creating a lovely world!
It was the 6th day
and He had finished creating all the animals
Then He lovingly formed man out of the fresh earth
I can imagine that for a moment,
He just looked at it.
Smiling at the thought of the wonderful times they would share together
"Oh my dear Adam." God might have said.
"How I love you."
Then God breathed His breath
of life into the form He had made.
Instantly, Adam's chest began to move up,
and down,
as his lungs inhaled the fresh clean air.
Smiling into his Creator's face,
Adam sat up.
"Hello Lord."
He might have said.
God showed Adam all around his new beautiful garden home.
"Adam, you may name the animals."
Adam grinned as he looked around
What a fun job.
He got started right away
But as he worked, he noticed that every animal God had created had a mate.
Was there a mate for him?
God cause Adam to fall into a deep sleep
And while Adam was sleeping
God took one of his ribs and formed a beautiful woman out of the soft earth
When Adam woke up and saw his wife,
he was filled with love
God blessed the first wife and husband
They spent their very
first whole day together enjoying God's company
God gave them the Sabbath as a special gift
They loved the garden home God had made for them
Each evening they would walk in the garden and talk with Him
It was such a wonderful time, they couldn't wait to be with God!
One sad day however,
Adam and Eve made a wrong choice
They chose to listen to Satan
God had told them that they could eat at every tree in the garden, except one.
The tree of the knowledge of good and evil
The happy couple didn't want any part of that
But unfortunately,
Eve left Adam's side
and ate the fruit that the serpent,
who was really Satan,
offered to her.
Then she shared it with Adam
Immediately instead of wanting to be with God,
they felt afraid, and hid from Him
But God still loved them
He did not stop loving them because they did a wrong thing
He had made them in His image
and He would always love them
Because Adam and Eve disobeyed God,
they had to leave their garden home
No longer could they meet God and walk with Him in the evenings
But God loved them so much that He had made a special plan
So that one day, they could live with Him again
God loves us, and He wants us, to live with Him too.
This podcast is read by Frenita Buddy
for gracelink.net
Created and produced by Falvo Fowler
Post produced by Faith Toh at Studio Elpizo
The theme music is by Clayton Kinney
Animation and artwork by Diogo Godoy
The audio engineer was Karel Holness
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