Thursday, January 1, 2015

Genesis 1

"Then God saw everything that He had made and indeed it was very good." v.31

Read chapter 1.
"TOV" the Hebrew word for 'good.' It's used seven times in this first chapter of the Bible.  God refers to everything He created as 'tov' meaning good, beautiful, "working the way it was created to."  And when He gets to creating man and woman He says "VERY TOV."  Like we're His masterpiece!  Also notice that He didn't create disease, death, harm, poisoness plants, salvage beasts, etc.  These harmful plants, animals, UV rays are all a result after the fall, but originally all tov.  It's hard to picture  what this creation week looked like and we can't really know how long the world was tov until the fall, but we do know that there will be a New Heavens and New Earth that seem to be similar to this (compare Genesis 1 with Revelation 22 the very first and very last chapters of the Bible).  God is still creating us- He didn't just stop working day 6.  You are VERY TOV to Him.  Can you grasp that?!

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