Sinclair Ferguson

We Christians tend to think of the word grace as related to sin.

So people might define God's grace as his demerited kindness to sinners.

But God didn't become gracious only when man fell, did he?

God didn't change and become gracious.

His response to the future tragedy of the fall was the determination to be savingly gracious, but the God who became savingly gracious to us was always gracious.

We mustn't think that God before creation was any less gracious.

We mustn't think that the God who made Adam and Eve was less gracious when he created them.

than when he redeemed them.

He was always gracious.

He was always kind.

He was always generous.

It wouldn't surprise me that some of us, even when we were young children, lay in bed after our parents had put the light out and hoped we were sleeping.

And in some childish form or another, we asked ourselves the question, why am I here?

Why is anything here?

And here is the fundamental answer.

Because the God we have is a gracious God.

And then seventhly, what we need to see in Genesis chapter 1 is it's going somewhere.

So if I were to ask you, where is Genesis 1 going somewhere?

What is the apex?

What is the telos?