Genesis chapter one devotes thirty-one verses
describing two very important characteristics of God:
1. His Power.
2. His Pleasure.
His power is seen in the fact that He is able to
create and sustain all of creation by the very word of His mouth.[1]
His pleasure is emphasized seven times as He looks over what He has made and
declares it to be good.[2]
What
is held within this very first chapter of Scripture is the truth that everything began with God.
He is the Creator of the planets and stars and He administrates and organizes
them all into their glorious galaxies. Through His spoken word all things were made
out of nothing and He alone holds all things together so that they may remain
as something.[3]
He is the great Creator and Sustainer.
From
the smallest particle to the largest star, He governs all of creation with
a firm hand. The best part about all of this is that He made it all for Himself
and His eternal plan is to share it with us.[4]
This may sound odd to you, that He would create it for Himself but, if the joys
of creation please Him and He is the source of our pleasure, then we who are in
Christ will likewise be eternally pleased.
What
we learn about God in this chapter is that He is both sovereign and good. He is
sovereign because He reigns as the supreme authority and owner over our lives,
and He is good because He focuses His attention on benefiting the lives of His
people. He laid the foundations of creation without any power tools and He
developed every square inch to be good and pleasurable through all the senses —
sight, sound, taste, touch and smell.
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