“God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day.” — Genesis 1:31
In his book, “Basic Christianity”, John Stott writes the following: “God always makes the first move. Whether it is the creation or our personal relationship, we are never first to the scene.
‘In the beginning God.’ The first four words of the Bible are more than a way of launching the story of creation or introducing the book of Genesis. They supply the key which opens our understanding to the Bible as a whole. They tell us that the religion of the Bible is a religion in which God takes the initiative.