This book is a bird’s-eye view of life themes essential to a relationship with the Lord as He reveals them in the first five books of His written Word, the Bible.  The Jews call these books the Torah, meaning “the Law,” and Biblical scholars also call them the Pentateuch, meaning “five vessels” or “five books.”

I wrote this book to help myself see and understand what is in the beginning of His story and, I hope, to help others see and know the God who reveals Himself in its pages.  I focused on the first five books, because this is where God begins in making Himself known.  If you want to know Him, it’s where He starts.  The rest of the Bible makes more sense if you begin with God where He begins.

We learn in the first few pages that it didn’t take long for people to become more interested in what they were doing than in what God is doing.  That’s been our problem from our beginning, so it’s no wonder that we focus on ourselves and tend to overlook the main Character.  My hope is that our awareness of the main Character as revealed in the Pentateuch will reawaken us to the excitement in His story and our part in it.