Dust and Breath: Genesis 2:4-17

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.

Now the story zooms in. Chapter one gave the cosmic view—the wide-angle lens of creation week. Chapter two gives the intimate portrait—God in the garden, shaping humanity with his own hands.

When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground. But streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

A world waiting. A garden needing a gardener.