The Bible begins with the words, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” The biblical account of creation distinctly differs from other ancient accounts of the beginning of the world and humanity. Absent are reports of battles between deities or gods having offspring. There are no hints that the sun, moon or stars are deities to be worshipped. The Bible starts with God alone.

As the Bible describes the different days of creation, it says that every day God stopped to review what he had done and observed that it was good. He did not make an evil world but a good world. It was carefully designed to work well and to be beautiful. This was God at his creative best.

On the seventh day God rested. That is not to say that he napped or abandoned his responsibilities of running his universe, it’s saying that he stopped what he was doing — for he was finished. He had done a marvelous job and it was very good!

The last book of the Bible describes a magnificent scene in heaven where angels lay their crowns before the throne of God saying, "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created.”

From beginning to end, the Bible demonstrates that our response to God’s creation should be to worship him — to acknowledge his greatness. Our design, our destiny and our privilege is to worship our Creator!