The Author Takes The Stage - The One Year Unlocking the Bible Devotional

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.   Genesis 1:1

Imagine yourself at a theater for the performance of a new play. The curtain goes up and the stage is empty. Then the author walks out and introduces himself. He tells you who he is, why he wrote the play, and what it is about. Without apology or argument, the author simply begins to speak about himself and his work.

The Bible begins with God walking onto the stage and introducing himself. This is his story, and so right at the beginning, God introduces himself to us. As we follow the Bible story, we will discover more about who he is and what he has done, but the first thing God wants us to know is that he is here.

God wants us to know that what we are about to see is entirely his work. This is of great importance because the creator has the rights of an owner. If I say, “Have it your way,” you will probably think of Burger King, or if I say, “Just do it,” you will think of Nike—because a slogan belongs to its creator.

A creator always has the rights of ownership, and God owns all that he has made. If your life were an accident arising from millennia of human history, then you would be a free agent, accountable to no one but yourself. But if you were created, then your Creator has the full rights of ownership over your life.

Either you are an accident of history and completely free to do whatever you please with your life—to indulge it or trash it or end it—and if that is the case, your life is ultimately meaningless; or you are a created being, and your Creator has absolute rights of ownership over your life.

God introduces himself as our Creator and therefore our owner. You are not your own. Your life is a trust given to you from God. You are not worthless or aimless; God chose to bring you into being. He did it on purpose, and you will discover that purpose as you get to know him.

For further reading, see Genesis 1