Before Bed Time

Just a little story.

Very long ago before there was bed time or dinner time or really any time at all there was someone that we call God.  He decided that he was going to make everything.  Up till then there was nothing but God.  Did you ever make a sandwich or a treat with milk and cookies?  Did you need anything to get started?  Sure you did.  You needed bread and jelly and peanut butter or milk and a glass and cookies.  But God started with just himself. 

For you and me that certainly would not be enough to start with, even to just make a sandwich.  But for God that was all he needed. 

So how do you think he got started? 

Oh! That’s right I’m supposed to tell you the story. 

Well God Started by saying, “Let there be light.” 

Can you guess what happened then? 

That’s right, where there had only been nothing there was light.  Then God divided the light from the dark and he called the light day and the dark night.  So guess what, where there had been nothing at all now there was night and day and time. 

So now we could have bed time.

 Is that good news?

 Well we could also have snack time and play time.  I know that is good news. 

After that for five more days every day God made a little more of the world each day just by telling it to be there until he had it all finished. 

I kind of wonder what language God used.  We speak English but other people speak other languages like Spanish, French, and lots of other languages.  The problem is I don’t speak many of those languages so I cannot understand what is being said.  So if someone asked me for a glass of water in Japanese, I wouldn’t know what they wanted so I probably would not get it for them.  But the light knew when God told it to shine what it had to do.  And when he told the world to make a ball it knew what to do.  And the grass grew and the fish started swimming and birds flying, just like God told them to. 

Yep God knows all the languages even how to tell the rivers to go down to the sea. 

Since God only used his words to make everything.  Words must be really important.  I think they are and the Bible tells us that if we can learn to talk without saying anything bad we will be perfect[1]. 

Wow to be perfect. 

That is probably really hard to do.  But I think God wouldn’t tell us something like that if he didn’t want us to work at it.  So let’s try really hard to only say kind things and always say what is true.  If we start working on that right now and always be careful of our words maybe someday with God’s help we will be able to be perfect. 

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[1] James 3:2