The Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah is a visible reminder of the span of time as recorded since time began being recorded following creation.
Sunday I had the joy of telling the story of Creation and The Fall as recorded in the Bible in Genesis chapters 1, 2 & 3 to the Kindergarten through 5th Grade Kids at my church. It was a lot of territory to cover in 15 - 20 minutes so I didn't go into eras of time that could have been spanned in each 'day' of creation. I believe God's Word - that God created the heavens and the earth, and I don't care if He chose to do it over eons or spoke creation into being eons-old in a single day. The account in Genesis could easily be just face value that God spoke and whatever He spoke came to be. I prefer to think of it precisely that way - - but, as I said, it doesn't matter. What matters is that He did it!
The current focus of the story for me is the difference in how He created all other facets of creation but man. Light from dark. He spoke and it was done. Waters divided. He spoke and it was done. Sun & Moon. Planets. Galaxies. Dry land. Seas. Fish. Sea life. Earth. Plants/trees/vegetation of all sorts. Animals. He spoke and it was done. But He got His hands dirty with man.
Our triune God said, "Let us make man in our image...." Then he took the dust of the earth and formed it into the shape of the very first male. I used to make mud pies. It's dirty business....creative...and very personal. When God had everything shaped just the way He wanted, He blew His breath into the man and man came alive. Adam had a while to name all the animals and have a little 'cave' time; and then God performed the very first surgery. He put Adam to sleep, removed one of his ribs, and used it as the beginning piece for His most beautiful creation: Eve. And God saw that it was very good!
Prepping for that lesson was the first time that the difference in creation between everything else and people struck me so indelibly. I'm glad God got dirty to create us. He can still handle our dirt - - and He sent His Son to prove it!
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