The History of Time and the Genesis of You

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Could it be that we've started reading the Bible in the wrong place? Chapter 2 rather than chapter 1? We seem to think the story begins with us and ends with us . But maybe God's Word is the Beginning and End. Maybe the story begins in chapter 1 – and even ends in chapter 1. Perhaps the deepest story is not the story of our failure but the story of God's success. Maybe the deepest story is not dependent on your story, but your story is dependent on the deepest story.
Peter Hiett argues that Genesis chapter 1 is the history of time – all time. And His-story is the genesis of you. The deepest story is that God is making you in His image and will not fail. Jesus is His Word, and even when we nail Him to a tree – especially when we nail Him to the tree – He does not fail. Even though we wrote ourselves out of the story; even though we cursed the word, crucified the Plot and damned ourselves, even that is a story within The Story – The Father's Story: The History of Time and the Genesis of You.
Genesis 1:26 – "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.'" Isaiah 55:11 – "So shall my Word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it." Genesis 1:31 – "And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good."
God will finish what He started. And everything, everything, everything, will be very good...including you.