GOD CREATED AND SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD
(Genesis 1:1-2:3)
POINTS TO PONDER:
1. Every time God created something, the bible says, "and He saw that it was good". Everything He created, what God beheld was what was good in everything. So if someone says you are ugly, you're not as bright or intelligent, you're not as well-deserving of life as others are, shrug it off and be confident enough to say, "I am sure that when God made me and He saw me for the first time after being done creating me, He saw that I was good." Sa Diyos, walang pangit, walang bobo o tanga, walang mas mabuti... Lahat pantay-pantay na magaganda sa paningin Niya at mabubuti ang pagkakagawa Niya. God doesn't make any junk.
2. There was an order on how God created everything and that order had man as its centerpiece, as well as God's masterpiece. We are the final touch, the most vital display in all of God's creation.
The light, the heavens and the earth, the sun, moon and the stars, the plants and trees, the fish and everything in the sea, and animals were all made first with man in mind. Wala pa tayo sa mundo, ni hindi pa nagagawa si Adan at Eba, nasa isipan na tayo ng Diyos. Ginawa na ng Diyos yung environment kung saan mamumuhay ang tao in abundance. He loved and cared for us even before He made our first parents, and designed everything so that the life of man may be supported from His abundant creation. If God desired that our first parents be born into God's abundance, so is His desire for us, too. That is our birthright.
And because we are His masterpiece, He gave us an essence which He did not give any other kind of creature that He had made. GOD GAVE US A PIECE OF HIMSELF. HE MADE US OUT OF HIS OWN IMAGE, HIS OWN ESSENCE, HIS OWN NATURE. This means that we are already set apart immediately, automatically from the rest of creation. WE ARE SPECIAL.
3. Before God gave Adam and Eve responsibility, HE BLESSED THEM. It was the original intention of the divine that man be given DIVINE FAVOR. With the blessing, God declared man set apart from His other creation and as such, we play an important role in God's eternal plan.
We have to draw strength from what God originally planned for man, to live out of His abundance, His divine favor, with a will to do or perform our God-given responsibilities to honor Him.
