1. God is holy – and we have sinned

God is good

In the very beginning, God made the sun, the stars, the trees, the animals and people. “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31).

God is holy. That means He is perfectly good and pure. He never lies, He is never unkind, and He never does anything wrong. “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).

We have done wrong

But people chose to disobey God. Adam and Eve ate from the tree that God told them not to eat from (Genesis 3). Since then, every person has done wrong things.

The Bible says: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).

Sin is when we do, say or even think things that God says are wrong. Like telling a lie. Like hitting someone. Like not listening to Mum and Dad.

Sin is like a dark cloud

Imagine a sunny day. Then a big dark cloud comes and hides the sun. Sin is like that cloud – it comes between us and God (Isaiah 59:2).

That makes God sad, because He loves us very much. But the good news is that God has a plan to take the cloud away! We will learn about it in the next lesson.