Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

It's day one, and I'm so excited that you're here with me for this.

Before we begin, I want to make sure we're all on the same page, literally.

There are lots of chronological plans, and if you're using a different one, we'll probably get off track with each other at some point, though it could be months from now. So go ahead today and make sure you're either using the principal plan from our website, thebibyl recap.com forward slash start, or if you're using the Bible app to stay on track, make sure you're using the plan called the Bible Recap with Tara Lee Cobble. And it has our logo as the image. Today we read Genesis 1 through 3. If you haven't read this yet, hit pause on this podcast and go check that out first. I'll still be here when you finish, ready to recap with you. And just a heads up, today's episode will be a bit longer than usual because we have to

set up a lot of what's happening here. Each day, I'll start out by aiming to give you a high-level view of where we are in the meta-narrative. If you're not familiar with the word metanarrative, that just means the overarching storyline. There are lots of stories in these 66 books of the Bible, but they all work together to tell one big story. That's the meta-narrative.

So each day, we'll zoom out, and then we'll zoom way in, and I'll give some specific

details about what stuck out to me in that day's reading. At the end, we'll have a section

called the Godshot, where we look for the picture or snapshot of God's character from that

day's reading. The attribute of God that stands out

to me and that I reference in this section might be totally different than yours, and that's okay.

This is a multi-layered book, so don't expect that we'll all notice the same things every time.

By the way, we're not looking for our application point here. This isn't your to-do list. This is

what you saw about God. What he

loves, what he hates, what he does, what motivates him to do what he does. We're looking for

him. That's why we call it the God shot, not the Me shot. This might be challenging at first,

because many of us are used to looking for ourselves in Scripture instead of God. And some days will be

harder than others, but keep looking for him. He instead of God. And some days will be harder than others,

but keep looking for him. He's on every page. As we start out, our chronological plan, we'll be in

Genesis for the first few days, then we'll pop over to the book of Job before we come back to

Genesis because we're reading in the order that this happened. Anytime we start a new book,

we'll recommend a short video overview to help set you up for

success. If you're using our reading plan on the Bible app, those videos will appear in that app

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