Welcome to some encouragement from your friends at Our Daily Bread.

Today's devotional titled God's View of Us was written by Kenneth Peterson.

It was 1968, and America was mired in a war with Vietnam.

Racial violence was exploding in cities and two public figures had been assassinated.

A year before, fire had taken the lives of three astronauts on the launch pad,

and the idea of going to the moon seemed like a

pipe dream. Nonetheless, Apollo 8 managed to launch a few days before Christmas. It became the

first manned mission to orbit the moon. The flight crew, Borman, Anders, and Lovell, all men of faith,

broadcast a Christmas Eve message from Genesis chapter 1.

End the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. At the time, it was the most

watched TV event in the world, and millions shared the God's-eye view of Earth in a now iconic photo.

Frank Borman finished the reading, and God saw that it was good.

Sometimes it's hard to look at ourselves, all the hardships we're mired in, and see anything that's good.

But we might return to the story of creation and see God's view of us.

In the image of God, he created them.

Let's pair that with another divine eye view from John 316. For God, so loved the world.

Today, remember that God created you, sees the good despite the sin, and loves the you he created.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from the first book in the Bible, Genesis, Chapter 1, verses 1 through 10.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now, the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, let there be

light, and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.

God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And there was evening, and there was morning,

the first day. And God said, let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.

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