The Marvelous Works of Creation Declare His Glory

Genesis 1:14-2:3

In verses 14-19 God continued His creative work. He spoke lights: the sun, moon, and the stars to give light to the earth, to govern and to separate the day and the night. These would also serve as signs to mark seasons, days, and years. God saw that it was good, and the evening and the morning made the fourth day.

Then God commanded the seas to bring forth abundantly all moving living creatures, the great whales and every bird that has wings. God saw that it was good and blessed them, saying, be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. The evening and the morning were the fifth day (20-25).

Finally God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. He made man in his own image – male and female.” This was not an afterthought because God was purposeful in His work. He blessed them, telling them to be fruitful, and multiply, and He gave them dominion over all His creation. (26-28). He made provision of food also for all of His creation (29-30). God saw everything that he had made, and declared it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day (31).

In six days of creative work, God took the dark, formless, and empty earth and from nothing created His universe and filled it with the living and the nonliving to declare His glory. He appraised all His creation as good, but man, the culmination and crown of His creation, was appraised as “very good” (1:31). “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them” (2:1).

On the seventh day God rested from all his work which he had made. He blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made” (2:2-3). We are a part of the marvelous works of creation. Give God glory for all He has done in your life.