Land Ho

DEVOTION

GENESIS

LAND HO

Gen 1:9-10

9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.

NIV

It is interesting to wonder just exactly what language did God speak? Yet as he informed Moses of what he had done during his creation of all that was created he most have spoken in the native language of Moses, Hebrew. So with that in mind we now see that all the water that God gathered under the firmament or space, or in the Hebrew, sky, the lofty, the heaven, the visible arc in which the clouds move and even higher where the celestial bodies revolve. This water he gathered into a small ball and spoke dry land to appear within or upon this water. It is possible to imagine, if we were to remove ourselves from our human minds, or thinking and garner just for a moment the thoughts of God. As he gathers a large amount of water into one place he makes it become denser and denser, more compact until some of this water simply becomes a solid. We also might imagine he used a spinning force to accomplish all this creating a gravitational force in doing so. This would keep the waters and the land in this one place and as it became denser in this spinning process, it began to spin slowly at first and then faster and faster until it reached the rate the earth currently spins on its axis from which we derive our days and nights. This is an exact order to things, an order from what was chaos, simply called the deep which his Spirit hovered over. It is also an interesting thought, thinking about before the separation and gathering of the water, did God have a heaven, a throne, angels, and all the splendor or was it just his Spirit hovering over the deep, the chaos? In his creation process, did he create all his heaven, his throne, the angels, the wonders that John described in the revelation given to him by the Spirit? Whatever he did, here he turned all this ball of water into what we now know as the earth, although at this point in time it is just the land and the seas. Was the land flat, or did he make the land appear with all the majestic mountains as we know them today? Were there the deserts, and the fertile plains? Did he create all the different shapes of the current continents? He had to know, being all knowing and ever present that his creation would spread all over this earth he created and that he would have caused it because of their singular language and desire to build a tower to reach the heavens, showing their own greatness. So he must have made the land appear in the shapes we know today so that we could live in all the various places, so that Adam and Eve could fulfill his command to them to be fruitful and fill the earth. Yet maybe the earth as God first designed it looked nothing like we see today. Maybe it all changed due to the great flood that he caused to destroy all of the wickedness mankind had become. Once he opened the deep of the earth and the waters sprang up as well as when he caused the waters to fall from the firmament to cover the whole of the earth he then caused all this change to take place by the force of all that water. We may never know what he intended it to look like at first, but we can be assured it looks like he intends it to today. All life which he is about to create will need this combination of land and sea. All life, the atmosphere we need to live, to breath comes from this water. This Oxygen, this air is derived from water. God had his plan and he was about doing only what he can do, create. He is about to create an entire ecosystem, an environment for the existence of his crowning creation, man. So for now we have the land and the sea.  Land Ho!