HANDMADE

GENESIS 1:3: And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
GENESIS 1:6: And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.”
GENESIS 1:9: And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.: And it was so.
GENESIS 1:14: And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years.”
GENESIS 1:20: And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let the birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”
GENESIS 1:24: “And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.”

“AND IT WAS SO.” Notice that God spoke and all these things were created. The fact that He can speak and create is not surprising, being the all powerful God that He is. In the next verses concerning creation of man and woman, there is a difference.

Genesis 1:26: Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
Genesis 1:27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Genesis 2:6,8: The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
Genesis 2:18,22: The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. O will make a helper suitable for him.” Then the Lord God made woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

The difference being that God created, formed, and made man and women. He “hand” made us. Now visualize God taking dust in His hands, molding, forming and smiling when the finished product was done. Can you see His hands forming the woman.? Can you see Him breathing His first breath into mankind. What an awesome thought. We are HANDMADE by our God.

Knowing this, don’t you think you matter to God? Sure you do. But, why do we go on hurting people, why do we feel superior to some, and inferior to others? Why do we place labels on certain groups of people? Why is someone different from us somehow better or worse?

Remember this, you have never locked eyes with someone that does not matter to God and that was not HANDMADE by God. Therefore, people should matter to us. All people, short and tall, big and small, regardless of “status”, regardless of age, heritage, etc, matter to God because they are HANDMADE by God.