Have you ever been in a corn maze or a hedge maze? It’s exciting, isn’t it, trying to find your way from turn to turn? You can’t see beyond the next turn, and that’s where all the adventure is…beyond the turn! 

There are two things you will notice in the book of Genesis. The first thing is, in all its stories, God gives people the power to choose their way in this maze we call life. The other thing? God offers hope. We can choose to have faith in that power of hope.

Genesis tells us what kind of creation we are. (We are the crowning act—the best—of God’s creation. We are a unique masterpiece.) It tells us we can do amazing things with God. It tells us how we are connected to the rest of creation. Wow! 

Can you imagine if you were standing on a cliff and your parents tell you that the safest step is to move left but you chose to move right…right off the cliff!! Throughout history, God’s people often choose to do their own thing… till they fell off or were stuck. Then God had to come in and reset everything. 

God has promised to those who believe that He would care for them. He even gave them prophecies to remind them of His promise. Each of those promises were anchors of His love for us. They were given so that we would always remember to stay with Him and recognize that even though we live in a world of sin, God loves us and wants the best for us. 

Throughout history and the Bible, people with power have tried to do things their way. Often forcing things to happen because they believed God wanted them to force things. But it’s a true person of God who relies on Him to bring things together. They allow people to choose to follow God, rather than forcing them to follow Him. God doesn’t force, scare, or guilt anyone to follow Him. 

The Bible is a collection of books; A library of books written for specific and general reasons. The Bible is also full of stories of people who failed. But it isn’t just about their failures; God didn’t tell us these stories to focus on the punishments, but for us to recognize the importance of faith and how that faith can take a person from failure to redemption. 

The Bible starts with telling you in the beginning God created. He began everything. He was the Beginning. Then it tells you that God created humans in His image. Wow! Imagine that! You are not God, but God made you enough like Him so that you can be goodness, and kindness, and love just like Him.