Some verses in the Bible are like beacons in the sea of scripture – buoys that mark the channel of God’s activity in history, God’s intervention in our lives, God’s relationship to persons.

Genesis 1: 1: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

Psalm 8: 4-5: “When I look at the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the Son of Man that thou dost care for him? Yet thou hast made him a little less than God and dost crown him with glory and honor.”

Micah 6: 8: “He has showed you, o man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?”

Jeremiah 31: 31, 33: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I …