January 6th, 2026 🤍✨📖 Reflection

Lately, life has been reminding me how fragile our days can be.

A man passed away at 74—his condition wasn’t clear. A coworker died at 50. And it’s hard not to notice how often younger people are facing serious diagnoses and fighting for their lives far earlier than we expect.

It’s sobering.

But it also pulls me back to the beginning—back to Genesis—because it highlights something I believe with my whole heart: God’s design was perfect from the start, and God is faithful in His Word. When He speaks, time doesn’t cancel it. Time confirms it.

One of the quiet ways Genesis preaches is through numbers. Not as trivia—but as a witness.

When you read Genesis 1–11 straight through, you can see the ripple effect of Eden: humanity loses access to the tree of life, death enters the world, and over generations the length of days begins to shrink.

And it all starts with the first lie: “Ye shall not surely die.”

And that’s how deception works—it sells consequences as delayed, so we treat them like they’re optional.

But Genesis shows the pattern: God’s Word stands whether we see the full outcome right away or not. Adam and Eve didn’t drop dead in the garden that same day, but death entered the human story… and eventually they did die—exactly as God said.

And then you watch it ripple.

By the time you get to Genesis 11, you can literally see the generational consequences in the numbers—a steady decline, then sharper drops, until human life is no longer measured in centuries.

Key: The number in parentheses is the total lifespan when Genesis 1–11 gives it. If Genesis 1–11 doesn’t provide enough information, I marked it (—).

ADAM (930) ── spouse: EVE (—)

└── SETH (912)

└── ENOS/ENOSH (905)

└── KENAN/CAINAN (910)

└── MAHALALEL (895)

└── JARED (962)

└── ENOCH (365) (walked with God; “God took him”)

└── METHUSELAH (969)

└── LAMECH (777)

└── NOAH (950)

├── SHEM (600)

│ └── ARPHAXAD (438)

│ └── SALAH (433)

│ └── EBER (464)

│ └── PELEG (239)

│ └── REU (239)

│ └── SERUG (230)

│ └── NAHOR (148)

│ └── TERAH (205)

│ ├── ABRAM (—) ── spouse: SARAI (—)

│ ├── NAHOR (—) ── spouse: MILCAH (—)

│ │ └── MILCAH’s family:

│ │ Father: HARAN (—)

│ │ Siblings: LOT (—), ISCAH (—)

│ │ Grandfather: TERAH (205)

│ └── HARAN (—) (died in Ur of the Chaldees)

│ ├── LOT (—)

│ ├── MILCAH (—) (married her uncle, Nahor)

│ └── ISCAH (—)

├── HAM (—)

└── JAPHETH (—)

God said it, and time proved it.

In Eden, the enemy dangled a lie that sounded harmless because it wasn’t immediate: “Ye shall not surely die.” But Genesis shows us something deeper: even when consequences aren’t immediate, they are still certain.

Sin doesn’t just touch you. It touches what you’re building. It touches your children and your children’s children. The enemy will always pitch it as “no big deal” because you won’t feel the full weight right away—yet Scripture keeps showing us that what we tolerate today becomes what our bloodline has to fight tomorrow.

And even in modern history, the verified edge of human longevity sits right around that boundary—the oldest fully validated lifespan is 122 years.

God’s Word is faithful. It may unfold slowly, but it does not fail.

Reflection question: Where have I been tempted to believe, “It’s not that serious,” simply because the consequence isn’t immediate?

Call to action: If you’re reading along with me, leave a comment and tell me—what is one lie you’re refusing to agree with this year, and what truth from God are you choosing instead? 🤍