September 21 2016 Steps Along the Way toward Today’s Challenges and Grace

It is good that in the beginning God existed.  If that were not so, how would we or anything else exist?  The has to be a first cause.  God created us and did so in his image and likeness, but first he began by creating a place for us.  This place was earth and the fertile regions of the Near East.  It was here that man’s relationship with God began.  Unfortunately, we fell from grace early-on [and hurt our relationship with God] by choices Adam and Eve made.  The difficult part is that we have inherited a susceptibility to sin.  This brings us our own challenges.  Yet, we will see how next to us in these challenges, God is always there giving us his grace.