Creation- “…while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy” – Job 38:7
Reading: Genesis 1 & 2
Digging deeper
Genesis 1: 1-2 says that “in the beginning God created … and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” John 1: 1-2 tells us that “in the beginning was the Word (Jesus – John 1:14) …He was with God in the beginning. Then Job 38:7 – “the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy”. This gives me an awesome picture of how exciting an event creation was in heaven.
In Job 38 – 41, God speaks to Job about His creation. When reading these chapters, I become aware that He truly does hold the whole world in His hands and that He lovingly cares for the animals. In chapter 41, there is figurative, poetic imagery which reinforces that God’s purposes are supreme, beyond our ability to control, and sometimes beyond our understanding. In Job 39: 1-4, God talks about the birth of a mountain goat. He is intimately aware of what He created these animals to be like.
When God created man, He put man in charge of His creation. In Genesis 1:28 we read: “God blessed them and said to them, ‘…Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves under the ground.” And in Psalm 8: 6-8: “You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.”
Many verses in the Bible remind us of God’s love and care for us through examples from scripture. The lilies don’t toil (Matthew 6:28). We are more valuable than birds (Luke 12:24). We can find refuge under His wings (Psalm 91:4).
Lessons for Living-
“If we are children of God, we have a tremendous treasure in nature and will realize that it is holy and sacred. We will see God reaching out to us in every wind that blows, every sunrise and sunset, every cloud in the sky, every flower that blooms and every leaf that fades, if we will only use our blinded thinking to visualize it.” From Oswald Chambers “My Utmost for His Highest” February 10
In our lives where many of us live in cities and our food is bought off of shelves in a store, I feel many have lost the wonder of all God did for us through the works of His fingers (Psalm 8:3) Through this, we have also lost sight of what we must do as people responsible for God’s creation. In Acts 24: 4, when the believers were giving thanks to God, they started their prayer with these words: “Sovereign Lord…you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.” May we always be aware of the great gift we have!
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