And God saw everything that he had made, and
behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the
sixth day. (Genesis 1:1 and 31 Revised Standard Version)
(Over the past five weeks, I’ve been
writing here on Sundays about the different kinds of love. Last week I opened
with the very famous verse from John 3 - For God so loved the world that he
gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but
have eternal life. It dawned on me – well, or God pointed it out to me –
that I could break down that verse into five sections and use each one over the
next five weeks, up until Holy Week. So here we have it, this year’s theme for
my Lenten blog posts.)
We all know how the very first
book of the Bible begins – the Creation. God created the heavens and the earth;
the sun, the moon, the stars; the oceans, the rivers, the dry land; the grass, the
bushes, the trees; the fishes of the sea and the birds of the air; every
creature which walks, crawls, runs or slithers on this planet.
Then finally, God made mankind
– male and female – and He made them in His image.
He made all things, and He
made all things good and right. All that changed of course, when man fell into
sin, but that’s not the story for today. Today is for witnessing God’s glorious
creation and realizing how much He loves it all – every blade of grass, every whale
in the sea, every hawk in the sky, every whitetail deer which graces my yard
all winter. And most importantly, He loves each and every one of us.
LORD, God, thank You for making this beautiful earth and all
that is on it. Thank You for blessing us with Your creation. Amen.
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