Last
week we started a reading a story. It was one of my favorite stories,
about God and how He wants to be known by every single person on the
planet. We read about how God created the earth, and how he put two
very special people here, two very special people who were created in
His image. Do you remember what that word, 'image,' means?
That's
right. An image is like a picture or a movie, something that tells a
story about someone. Eve and Adam got to be the image of God. They
got to tell His story to the whole world. Or, they were supposed to.
But, you told me that something else happened next. You told me that
they messed up. They tried to tell their own story, and it broke the
image of God in them.
When
we left them, people didn't live in the Garden anymore. They had just
started to try to figure out this new way of living, and it wasn't
always going very well. It didn't go very well. God's plan looked
like it was broken. The whole earth wasn't hearing His story. Even
when there were people who tried to tell His story, tried to tell the
parts that they remembered, something always went wrong.
God
tried to help them. He gave them new languages so that they would
spread out farther with His story. He even started over, with just
one family, Noah's family. It didn't really look like any of those
things were working. The whole earth still didn't know His story.
But, just like at Creation, God had a plan. Let's read about some
more of that plan from the book of Genesis...
Download the PDF of the entire story here and click on the coloring pages below download.
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