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Day Seven

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On day seven God rested from all the work He had made.

Did God rest because He needed to? Was He worn out from all the strain of making everything that exists? Why did He rest? Was it for religious purpose? Is it a demand for us to rest?

God does not need the things that we do. He does not tire. The work of creation for Him was no big deal at all, He simply spoke all into existence. The rest was not a religious thing for Him, He is God.

Many things have been made out of God resting on the seventh day! There are those who have concluded that to do anything on the Sabbath is a sin worthy of death. There are those who have concluded that the seventh day is no different from any other day. I would point out at this moment that God did not tell Adam and Eve that the seventh day was any different from any other. The only instructions that God had given to them were:

  1. Have lots of children. (Gen 1:28)
  2. Rule the earth and all it’s moving inhabitants. (Gen 1:28)
  3. Eat and enjoy all the wonderful things that God had made for them. (Gen 1:28-30)
  4. Do not eat this one fruit at the centre of the garden.(Gen 2:17)

I see no mention to them to rest on the seventh day. Is it important then? If it weren’t important then God would not have mentioned it. I think though it is more for our benefit than for Adam and Eve at the time. Their whole life was to be involved with God, they would meet and talk with him all the time, face to face. They had no heavy work load. They were to enjoy God and all He had made for them. That is what God created mankind for.

Later on when God would deliver the Law to Moses, he required that His people rest on the seventh day. This was implemented to give them time to put down their work that consumed them and focus on, and Praise God for the things He had done, for the things He had given them, for the delivery from bondage that He did. Of course in true human fashion we have taken this privilege, to rest, and made it a burden. We set hard fast rules of what we can and can’t do on the seventh day, and then struggle to keep those rules, and struggle to justify why we break them. We get so focused on the rules that we forget to praise God on that day of rest. In fact the head of the Jewish religion in the time of Christ were most offended by the miracles that Jesus did on the seventh day. He broke their rules of the Sabbath, doing things that only God can do.

God rested from the work that He had done. Yes we should too. But rest, don’t make it a burden. God is a liberal God. He gives us all things liberally and He’d like us to rest one day of the week to reflect on His liberality toward us. No more than that. Happy resting!

Day Six

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Day six is the crescendo of creation! God has been putting this world and our universe together over the previous 5 days. He has put into place the laws of physics and time. He has set down laws that all of creation would follow, giving stability to those things He created. Nothing He created would change, there would be no evolution! If things were allowed to change, life would be unstable, uncertain. If allowed to change things we eat today may destroy us tomorrow, He didn’t allow that.

We find all the other animals being created on the sixth day. The full compliment of animals, this includes all those that are now extinct. Yes the dinosaurs too. How do we know? There is evidence of their existence. That’s how we know they existed. The evidence of their existence doesn’t prove evolution. The evidence of their existence doesn’t prove millions of years of life on earth. The evidence simply proves they existed.

So God spoke forth all the creatures that would occupy earth. He also put the limit that they would come after their own kind. They would not over time change into different animals.

Again I’d like to call our attention to the part of this scripture that God thought to be the most important. The creation of mankind. We know this is the most important because He took more time to tell us about the creation of man. When we speak to friends, we do the same thing, we spend the most time talking about the things most important to us. Man is the pinnacle of creation. Man is the focus of creation.

The first thing we notice is God saying to Himself, “let’s make man in our image, and after our likeness.” God had not said this about any other part of creation. That alone sets man apart from the rest of creation. We are made in the image and likeness of God, we are special to Him. This is what sets us apart from the rest of creation, not our thumbs! This is why we are able to invent, build such great things.

The second thing we notice is that God gave to man dominion over all the living things of earth. Yes He made us rulers of the earth. The earth is here to meet the needs of mankind. We are not here to meet the needs of earth.

The third thing we notice is that He created man, male and female. He wanted mankind to continue on. With out male and female there can be no procreation. This is another limit that God has set on this world. We have many groups now calling for same sex this and that. The real problem is that God set us up to be together as man and woman. He established this law from the very beginning. He created us to fit together. On the day that God created man, he created male and female. It’s interesting that God makes a point of mentioning male and female. Why would He do that? It’s important!

The fourth thing to take note of is the food that God provided in the beginning was for all. He provided the fruit and herb for food. This was to be the food for the whole of creation. He created everything to flourish, to be perfect.

God provided everything for life at creation.

He is all powerful, creating everything by His very words.

He is loving providing for the needs of all living things.

He is awesome, making such diversity for our enjoyment.

Day five

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Day five is God’s Creation of sea creatures and bird type creatures.

According to God all the sea life and all the creatures that have feathers were created at the same time. One creature did not come from another. All at once the seas teamed with life, both Mammal and fish in all the diversity that we see. At the same time the air exploded with life. Birds took flight, and I’m sure those land bound birds scurried to and fro.

It is important to note that God put limits on these creatures too. They were brought forth abundantly after their kind. God would bless them and they were to multiply and fill the seas and earth, but after their own kind. Again, they would not become other types of creatures, they would not mix in their breeding. They would multiply after the form that God had given them. The world we live in is highly ordered, there is nothing left to chance. God has planned it out, He has executed creation, and He has set the laws to govern His creation.

God created with such diversity, such beauty, that we are still making discoveries of “new” creatures. How is that possible after the passage of so much time, so many scientific studies? God is great! He is all powerful! As we look to the stars that God simply put in place, the oceans team with animals that we as mankind have not so much as laid our eyes on. It is said by scientists that we know more about space than we know about our own oceans. How interesting! There have been expeditions to depths in the oceans that previously were thought to not possess life. But in these impossible to live in places, life abounds. This shows how much we really do know. All of the wonder and splendour of the ocean God created for mankind! He did not create it so that we would worship it, put it before God or mankind. He created it for our pleasure, and as a testament to His awesome power and grace. He did not have to create so many varieties of creatures. He did so for mankind, so that we can look at it all and say “God is great!”

God is great! God is all powerful! God set the laws that earth and the universe exist by. He is worthy of praise! God made all of these things, He can do with them what He likes.

Day Four

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Day four of God’s creation of the earth deals with Space and time markers.

There are several purposes that God has for the heavenly lights all listed for us. Time markers between day and night, signs, seasons, and days and years.

Time and a rhythm are woven into the fabric of our world. God has set in place time to keep us on track. We in fact do mark days and years, years into seasons. Time doesn’t change. We know that the earth makes it’s full cycle around the sun in 365.25 days. This doesn’t change. That is because God has once again set a limit, a law, a regulation on time so that it is constant.

I’d like us to notice that God spent more effort on letting us know what the lights are for than on the lights themselves. He does speak about the lights but only really in passing. The greater light, the sun to rule the day, the lesser, the moon, to rule the night. I love the fact that God so flippantly says “He made the stars also.” No big deal!

It is also interesting to note that we as human beings fixate on the stars and space. This is again our focus being drawn away from God. We tend to major on the things that God wants us to minor on. Yes the stars that God so simply put there speak of His magnificent glory. They speak of his awesome power. We look deeper and deeper into space only to find it goes on further that we though previously. He is awesome!

It is important to take away from this short passage that God is awesome. He has created all that we see in space to mark time and seasons. To show signs of His greatness. It is in the stars after all, the Wise Men who came to worship Jesus at His birth, saw His sign.

God is great! God has created all things. He has put limits on all things. He has written the laws of time and physics. God can do these things because He is God. It is all his as is mankind. Just as God can do what ever He wants with the creation around us, He can do as He wishes with mankind.

Day Three

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Day three of the week of creation prepares the earth for all the life that God in His wisdom would bring into being.

Again God doesn’t make any kind of big deal out of what He does on day three. He is all powerful! To speak everything into being is no big task for God Almighty.

He made the land to come to the surface of the planet, and the seas he put in their place. He put everything needed to sustain life on earth in it’s place. He created the different types of plants, grasses, grains, fruits… These He put in place for the animal and human life that He would make in the next few days. God has made all of the variety we see for our enjoyment. He could have made one thing for all living things to eat, but He didn’t. He made tremendous variety for our enjoyment. Not only variety in edibles, but variety in colour, and varieties of texture. What a great, kind God.

I think it is important to note that He defined that the things He created would reproduce after their own kind. They would not over time change into different plants or grains. They would remain as He created them. They all have the stuff necessary bring more of their own kind into being. I am happy knowing that when I eat a certain food it will not all of a sudden be toxic, or all of a sudden change it’s flavour profile, or all of a sudden change the way it looks. It would be a bit of a problem if the limits God set on plants were not there. We would not know what to eat from moment to moment. Life would possibly be more dangerous and precarious! God knows whats best for us, much more in fact than we know for ourselves. That is why we should trust Him. Have faith in Him.

God is the one who sets limits on nature. He is the one who has put that laws of nature into place. He is the one who determines boundaries of life. I’m also very happy to know that the earths gravity will not change. It would be a bit of a bummer if in a moments notice our weight fluctuated because the earths gravity did so. Too little and we would loose our atmosphere, too much and we’d be crushed under the weight of the atmosphere or ourselves.

God is great! We can trust Him. He knows whats best for us. He desires the best for us. He made us, He alone can set the boundaries!

Day Two

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Day two of Creation to me is very interesting. On the surface nothing great seemed to happen. God spoke into being the atmosphere of earth. Big deal! God devoted a total of 3 verses to the description of this part of creation.

Just below the very casual description of God creating the atmosphere are some things that we need to pay a bit of attention to. First He said He divided the waters. Some of the water of earth was placed above the atmosphere and some below. It was kind of an air sandwich between two slices of water. What would this have meant for earth, for the environment, for the life that God would place on the planet?

The first thing that comes to mind is that the earth would have been in a giant greenhouse. The temperature would have been even and probably not fluctuated at all. I have always said that the perfect temperature is 80 degrees F. I know that lots of you have issue with that, but I think the earth may have been about 80. It would have also been quite humid being that the atmosphere was surrounded by water which was in turn heated by the sun.

The next thing I would think is that the suns rays would have been greatly filtered down, defused. Light from the sun would not have been so harsh. No way to get sun burned. No UV radiation to burn, break down living cells. I wonder what the appearance of everything was like, no harsh light, no hard shadows. All of earth bathed in a perfectly defused light. I sometimes dabble in picture taking. When I desire to take outdoor photos of a specific subject the early morning sunlight is the best. It is diffused by the atmosphere making a much more even light with shadows that are not stark. In all, the photos in this light are the best. I’m betting that the earth was lit with a light that was even better than that. Colours would not have been washed out, just vibrant and full of life.

We often say about someone who is protected that they live in a bubble. That is precisely what God did for us when He created the earth. He put it in a bubble. The atmosphere of earth would have been perfect for life at creation.

Under perfect conditions what would the plants, trees, animals have looked like? Don’t know.

There would have been no weather as we know it now. No disturbances, no rain, no storms, no winter. Wow! God is good. A perfect life is what He designed for us. A perfect world is what He created for us.

First Day

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I kind of ran through creation really quickly. I took a little time this morning to look at Genesis 1:1. Spent a bit of time looking at the events of the first day.

The first day was really a busy one. Most of what is important to us was created on that very first day. Earth and Space were the first on the list, undefinable, but first. Space was empty and the earth was formless according to the text. Water was another big one, water came along with the creation of earth. That was all the Lord made of the creation of these things.

The creation of light and time seems to have come next on that first day. God made more to do about these things. I saw a little something about the creation of light today that really got me thinking. It might not be much but, God created the light, then He separated it from the darkness. That got me to thinking a bit. What does God intend for us to understand by separating the light from the darkness. Perhaps the light He created filled everything, there were no shadows, no dark spots. This is I suppose like the light of God’s judgement that shines into our lives, it lights everything, there is nothing hidden from it. This new light that God had made may have flowed around everything like water filling every crack and void. Here is what may have been. When God created light it was not linear such as the light of the sun. The bible says He divided the light from the darkness. Could it be that He made it linear after creating it? Linear being that it travels in one direction. As we shine a light on an object it illuminates that object and flows on past that object at it’s borders. The side of the object away from the light source is not illuminated by the light, it resides in shadow, or darkness.

I did a little searching around on the internet as that thought filled my mind. I found that research is now being done on non-linear light as the way forward in computing and communications. Interesting!

After creating light, separating it from darkness, He defined a day as being morning and evening. The days of creation were defined by God at the very first day. 24 hrs! The days of creation according to scripture are just like the days we have now. It has always been interesting to me that in these few short verses describing the creation of the world and space, light and dark, that God would take the time to define the length of time it took to do these things. He gave us the Bench Mark of time.

God is great! He is the creator of all things around us. He dictates how those things behave.

Everything that is made is His, because He made it. What God does with creation is His own decision to make.

Star of the Show

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God devoted an entire chapter of the book of Genesis to describing how He created the universe, in what order, and in how much time He created it.

He spent the very next chapter of Genesis talking about His star creation. Man! The creation of man was mentioned in chapter one, but only in passing just as everything else was mentioned. Chapter two goes into more detail about the creation of man. Detail about the surroundings in which God put man. God does this because man is the star of the show as far as creation is concerned. God describes special things that He did for man, and how He created woman to be his companion.

God had gone to the trouble of making a special place for the new couple to live. They had in this place everything they needed for a great life. There was no hard work to be done. The only job that God had given to Adam at this point was to rule over all of creation and to care for the garden.

Why had God made mankind? Why did He give them everything they needed? His desire was and is to commune with man, to fellowship with him. He want’s to talk with us, walk with us, be the main part of our lives. He want’s to be worshiped by us, to be held in His proper place, at the centre of our lives. He wants to be our big picture.

We complain today that we have no time. That was not God’s intention. He created us to spend time with Him. To enjoy Him, to talk with Him, to need Him. We get caught up in the whirl wind of our lives today where it is easy to forget that God wants our attention. Are the things we are doing evil if they pull us away from God? No, not necessarily, they are often good things. We work to eat, buy a house, clothe out bodies, ensure a good life for our children. The bad part of all of this is that we forget God, our mind’s eye is on paying the bills and we lose sight of what we were created for… to worship our creator God.

Don’t forget we are the star of creation. Jesus taught us that if we seek after God with our whole heart, He will provide the things we need. Could it be that we see the bills so large in our lives because we have our focus on them instead of the God of our lives? He want’s our attention, He asks for our attention. Lets give Him our attention and see what He does.

Creation

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Well, it seems we like to make things “isms” and such, so I think this would be a thought on creationism.

It is said by some that the world came into being in a violent bang! A bang that hurled everything around us into existence. I suppose to some degree they are correct! There was in fact great violent, and things did really explode into existence!

God alone existed before the world and Universe around us. God speaking to Himself decided to create those things that we see. The beginning in the bibles account of creation does not refer to God, He was already there, has been forever. Hard to fathom but we must simply accept this by faith. The beginning refers to the beginning of the things that we see. The bible after all is not written for God’s benefit, it is written for our benefit. So in the beginning God…

There was no light, no matter, no energy. To this point we agree with the big bang THEORISTS. Here we separate, The bang that came was not of of chance from nothing. The bang that came was God’s voice saying “let there be light.” Imagine the violent bang as light came into existence for the very first time. It’s hard to imagine, nay impossible, but have you ever been in a dark room just relaxing only to have someone turn on the light. It is an outright assault to the eyes, and even the other senses. An act of violence! A bang!

God would go on according to His word, the bible, to speak, and matter exploding into existence for the first time.

The full account of the creation is found in the very first chapter of Genesis. It is God’s commentary of what happened that week. He alone was there for the whole event, He alone has the full story. He alone set into place all matter that we see around us. He alone put the stars into their places. He was the source and director of the Big Bang that brought everything into existence. He teaches in the bible that He also keeps all of creation, which means that He keeps it together, just as He wants it to be.

He teaches us that He created us for His pleasure, and everything else was created for us. What a great God. He wants us to have all the great things that this earth has to offer. We often forget that we were not created for the world, as many would have us believe today.