Genesis 1:14-25 - What God Makes is Good!

Genesis 1:14-25

14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. 16 Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. 17 God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” 21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

On the fourth day of the world we see how God made the stars in the heavens already created and the sun with its reflective moon to give some light in the darkness of nighttime.  He made the stars and named them (Psalm 147:4, Isaiah 40:26) and they were put in place to give meaning and seasons (Psalm 104:19) for us to consider and to give a pace to living.  He divide day and night by the lights of heaven for us as a reminder that He brings light into darkness and to be able to tell time throughout the year by the monthly waxing and waning of the moon, the sunrise and sunset, and the constellation patterns and northern star to guide us in our travels.  This was a good fourth day.  Then the fifth day brought birds in the sky and fish swimming by in the seas of the third day.  He made them in abundance and with great variety, each after its own kind and not evolved on their own but by His original design.  The birds flew between heaven and earth to fill that empty space made for them while the seas swarmed with fish and other larger creatures in great numbers as well.  The Creator filled His world with living and active animals with a mandate to fill the waters and land with their children as fruitful in multiplying their populations.  This command to be fruitful and multiply was set in place before men and women were created to do the same as a pattern of God’s plan for us.  The sixth day began with the creation of the animals before man was crafted after God’s own image.  These animals were also created to propagate like offspring from the original and not morphing by imagined evolution on their own plan to become something other than what God intended.  They simply bred after their own kind as they continue to do to the present time.  God saw that His creation was good!  Our inclination to substitute another explanation to that given by God is our sinful nature attempting to find another explanation than what our Creator has told us; this is a matter of taking God at His word or choosing to invent our own ideas over His to attempt to prove that we know better what good and evil are in our hearts and minds.  Theorizing evolution by randomness or self-betterment over the Creator’s word as truth is the ultimate rejection of God as our Maker and demonstrates rebellion of disbelief in our thinking.  What God made is good; what we make of it is not.  Taking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to be like God ourselves is not a shortcut, but a path leading over a cliff away from Him and His plan for us.  What God makes is good.  What ever make of it in opposition to what He says instead is not.  What matters is not our explanation or ideas, but what is found as it is written for us to believe and accept.