The Last Three Days of Creation

Theme: The Last Three Days of Creation

Text: Genesis 1:14-31

Introduction: The Almighty God on Day 4 of creation created the light[but what light?]. On Day 5, He created the living creatures and called them blessed [this is obviously the first time, the word "blessed" is used by God] and on Day 6 created man in His image. As Ize Adava had highlighted on Tuesday, God is a wonderful sculptor with absolute Fine Art dexterity and attention to details. God is awesomely pedantic. 

Day 4 [v14-19]

Light? Again? Didn't we have "Light" created in v4? God has created light and there has been light in the past 3 days so what kind of light are we writing about here again? God could have left the light like that but He never did. He created the "lights, sun, moon and stars to serve as markers for seasons, days, years and signs. Just imagine a world without season, it would have been extremely "bland". These signs are important factors as they help us appreciate God more. These signs are used as testimony to God [Romans 1:14-20]. As navigation [Mathew 2:1,2] and as weather [Mathew 16:2,3].

Day 5 [v29-24]

God used the Day 5 to create living creatures: The animals and fish. And called them "blessed". The word, "blessed" simply mean to "be fruitful and multiply". Question. Can we ever catch all the Tilapia for food in the ocean? God has blessed the entire world with food. Why then do we go hungry and many are dead because of lack of food? Did God not bless us? Ponder on this! Adamic sin crept and God's curse remained! 

Day 6 [v24-31]

"Let us make man in our own image"- the words "us" and "our" shows us the very first sign of trinity [God, Son and Holy Ghost]. The crowning point of creation is the making of a living human in the image of God! I make bold to write that because we are made in the image of God, we draw a personal relationship with Him. Lets pause and think for a bit. We are made in God's image. We have a head [so does God], we have a heart [so does God], we have limbs and mobility [so does God]. We are made in His likeness. We are like God. The only difference is His awesome power. We have everything that God has! 

Dominion: We have dominion over all things that God has created. We have been asked to subdue them. [Psalm 8:6-8]. The word "subdue" does not in any way suggest unruly behaviour to "God's stuff".  We need to treat the earth with utmost caution and take care of God's stuff. I like the word "stuff". 

Male and Female: These two humans were specifically designed by God to multiply. God created them "Male and Female". This is instructive in this age of homosexuality where you have to be politically correct to address such issue but God at creation created them "Male and Female" and not "Male and Male" or Female and Female". If He had wanted such, He would have done it. Why are we changing God's plan? 

Blessed: God called them blessed. That word again? The second usage in the bible. This particular blessing involves reproduction and dominion. 

And it was very good: It's instructive to note that in v 4,10,12,18, 21, 25, God had used the word "good" but at the end of creation, He then used the phrase "very good". God was obviously pleased with Himself. There were no flaws. God is perfect! 

Conclusion

I wrote this about 3 years in an article titled "For Men Only: Praise and Worship", it's important that I add it here for emphasis. Pls enjoy!

I must confess that something just stirred up inside of me as I opened my PC to write this article, I’d wanted to write on an entirely different topic but I couldn’t hence this topic. Many of us as Men no matter our circumstance need to worship God daily. Nonstop. Sometimes, when I look at His Awesome wonder, I marvel at his sculptural dexterity. Forget human physiology and anatomy. Forget Medicine! God is an artist. He formed the bones and covered them in sinews and tendons. He formed the ball and socket joints and didn’t leave it like that; he added cartilages as a form of shock absorbers. He formed the ear and covered the middles section, the most delicate part with a tympanic membrane or else many of us in this 21st century would have gone deaf with the advent of over-blaring iPods and MP4s. He covered the eyeballs with an automatic eyelid, no matter the danger, no matter how small a foreign object may be, the eyelid closes before impact. It’s like He has a remote control in his hands up there. Take a look at your heart (I know you can’t see it but visualise its mechanism, follow the rhythm) and tell me if there is a Piston and Sleeve in place, what pumps that little organ? It’s been pumping the very minute you and I were conceived and will never stop till we drop the last breath. Even a Bentley Continental GT needs an annual service. When was the very last time you manually serviced your heart? What about the brain? Not even the world's fastest supercomputers can match it in Intuition. 

Give Him praise!