God Created the World in Seven Days (Day 1 - Day 4)

Genesis 1

Day 1

 ¹ God has been here since the beginning. He saw everything as it was created. Isn't that cool? God created Heaven and earth.

 ² The earth was not anything at this time. It was emptiness. It was water and heavens.

 ^3-4 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. And now dark and light were not together. They were separate.

⁵  God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there morning and night – the first day.

Day 2

 ⁶ And God said, "Let there be space between the waters to separate water from water." 

⁷ So God made the space and separated the water under the space from the water above it. And it was so. 

⁸God called the space "sky." And there was morning and night — the second day.

Day 3

 ⁹ And God said, "Let the water under the sky be in one place, and let dry ground show up." And it happened ¹⁰ God called the dry ground "land," and the waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.

 ¹¹ Then God said, "Let the land have trees with fruit, plants and vegetable gardens: many different kinds that will grow from seeds." And it was so. 

¹² And God saw that it was good. ¹³ And there was morning and night — the third day.

Day 4

 ^14-15 And God said, "Let there be stars in the sky and they will make the seasons, Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer and that will make the years.” And it was so. 

¹⁶ God made two great lights—the greater light, the sun will make the days, the lesser light, the moon, will make the night. He also made the stars. 

^17-18 God made the sky, the land, the sun and moon and stars. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was morning and night — the fourth day.

Things to Think About and Talk About

What did God create in the first 4 days?

Can you draw a picture of what God created?


Exercise!

God created everything, from nothing. Find a really dark place and go inside, like a closet. Is it really dark? You shouldn't be able to see anything. Remember how dark that was and go to the kitchen.

Now, get two cups, fill one with water and leave the other one empty. Put the empty (remember how it was in the dark place?) cup on the counter and look at it. That is how everything started – with nothing. It was all empty and God filled it. Now take the cup with water and start pouring it into the empty cup. Just like God did the emptiness before the world was created, it was filled because God spoke it into life.

We can pray and ask Him to fill us too - When we are sad, afraid, tired, hurt or miss someone – God is always here to listen to you, because He has always been here.