Genesis 1-2:3 (NLT)

In verse five the word days is used twice. The Hebrew word used for day "yowm" is the same in both cases; Yowm is a 24 hour period. A lot of questions are raised just on this one word alone. Does this mean a literal 24 hours? Some people look at 2 Peter 3:8,

"But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day."

This doesn't mean God created the earth in 7,000 years. This means that God is not limited by time, He is not on our timetable. Look at John 2:19,

“All right,” Jesus replied. “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

Jesus was referring to himself on the cross. The Greek word for day "hemera" is also a 24 hour period. Jesus rose in three 24 hour days, not 3,000 years.

Everytime the word day is used (14 times) in Genesis 1-2:3, it is the same word, a 24 hour period. So in six days God created alot.

Day One: Light and darkness
Day Two: The Sky
Day Three: Land,Sea, seed-bearing plants and trees with seed-bearing fruit
Day Four: Sun, Moon and stars
Day Five: Fish and everything that scurries and swarms in the water and every sort of bird
Day Six: Animals, man and woman
Day Seven: God rested

God you are amazing.

He created everything so He could have a relationship with me. Its crazy to think that God wanted me so much that He would create me. But He gave me the choice to love Him. He could have created me to love Him, but He created me with the choice to love Him.

Thank you Lord for all you have done and will continue to do. Thank you for being completely faithful to me when I am faithless.

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A Healthy Life...that's my one and only "New Years Resolution." Really its not a resolution at all because I don't do them. It seems every year I try to commit to a resolution and never keep them. So I decided not to wait for the new year and start around Christmas.
What does a healthy life entail? Well really to me I'm focusing on two aspects. A healthier spiritual life and a healthier physical life. Putting the spiritual life first of course. So far its been good, sad to say that its been far easier to live a healthier physical life though.
I've started reading out of Proverbs, Jeremiah and James. All very good books, James probably being my favorite. But, my wife and I started reading a children's bible with my daughter every night before bed. After a couple nights of reading it she loved it. One time laying her down for an afternoon nap she ran over to the nightstand yelling "buk!...buk!"-book. My daughter was excited to read the word of God, my daughter was seeking out the word of God. One of the stories we read the other night was Abraham sacrificing his son Isaac. I realized reading that story that Abraham and Sarah raised a boy, a man that sought after God's heart. A man that feared God. A man that listened to his parents, he would listen to his father to the point of death. He carried the wood he'd be burned on. Isaac trusted his father on earth and in heaven. And Isaac only listened and trusted his father on earth because he was raised by his parents who listened and trusted their father in heaven. I just pray that I can raise my children in the some way.
Now for a healthier physical life. I still need to work on eating healthier and smaller portions. But I've fallen in love with running. In the past two weeks I've ran between 10-15 miles. I love the high that comes with running. I just can't wait till I am reading and praying as much as I am running.