Prayers for all Occasions, Needs, and Intentions

THE STORY OF THE BIBLE

Retold for Children of all ages

Book 1

Introduction to The Holy Bible  |  God - Who is God and What is He Like   |  The Beginning  |  The Angels  |  The First Seven Days of Creation  |  The Garden of Eden  

GOD

BEFORE the world began, there was God. Who is God, and what is He like? No one can tell what God is like, We cannot see Him, although He is everywhere. No man has ever seen God face to face in this life. Just as we cannot look straight at the sun, so God is too bright, too beautiful, too wonderful for us to see. But we can know God and love Him. That is what we are made for, and it is the most natural thing in the world for us to do. A little child in a dark room cannot see his mother, but he can feel her arms around him. He can put out his hand and touch her face. He knows that she loves him. A man born blind cannot see the light of the sun, and he does not know what it looks like. But he can feel the warm sunshine. We are like the child in the dark, and like the man born blind. We can know and love God without seeing Him. One of the ways we learn is by reading the Holy Bible, God knows everything, even what we think. God can do anything He pleases. But there are some things God cannot do. He cannot be mean or false, He cannot tell a lie. He cannot do silly things, like making a square ball, or a crooked straight line. God is wise, and good, and strong, and loving, and kind, He is Life itself, and everything that is alive gets its life from Him. If He did not keep us every minute, and hold us in His loving hands, we would all fall apart. We would turn into nothing, like a flame that is gone out.

God is called Eternal, because He had no beginning and He will always  be. God never changes. Everything else in our world changes. Everything else had a beginning. We have our yesterdays, our today's, and our tomorrows. But with God it is always "today," When we are driving along the road, we pass through valleys and over hills. We go by houses and farm: and towns, But when we are up in a plane, we can see all the hills and roads and towns beneath us at once, like a map spread out. So it is with our days, As time goes by, we leave our yesterdays behind, and live through our today's, and think what we will do tomorrow. But with God, today and yesterday and tomorrow are all spread out like a map. He can see them all at once, Long ago, God was talking with one of His friends, a holy man named Moses. Moses asked Him, "What is your Name!" God answered, "My Name is I AM," Exodus 3, 1

GOD alone can truly say "I AM," for God is the only One who IS, without help from anyone else. All of us and everything in the world came to be because of God. God alone had no cause. God has been God forever, from before the world began. But God was never lonely, and He is never alone. God is three Persons. Each of that three Persons is God, so we say they are three Divine Persons. The three Divine Persons together are called the Blessed Trinity. They are not three Gods. There is only one God. God the Father is the first Person of the Blessed Trinity. God the Father has a Son, who is the second Person of the Blessed Trinity. The third Person of the Blessed Trinity is God the Holy Ghost. We cannot understand God. We cannot understand how He can be three Divine Persons, but only one God. We know this is so, because He has told us, Water, steam, and ice are three, and yet they are one in the atom, we find heat, light, and power, again, one and three. Yet the Blessed Trinity is more wonderful than these. God's glory is too bright for us to bear in this life. In Heaven, we shall see Him, and we shall never grow tired of Looking at His beauty. We can look at the sun only through clouds, or through a dark glass. So God has sometimes disguised Himself in the shape of a man, and has visited His friends in this world, and has talked with them. When Jesus Christ, Out Lord, was born, then God the Son really became a man, and lived among us. He hid His glory, so we could look at Him and not be afraid.

Book 1

Introduction to The Holy Bible  |  God - Who is God and What is He Like   |  The Beginning   |  The Angels  |  The First Seven Days of Creation  |  The Garden of Eden