Air, Land, and Sea

 DEVOTION

GENESIS

AIR, LAND, AND SEA

Gen 1:9-13

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. 11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning — the third day.

NIV

Why did God do two parts of his creation on the third day? Because he is God, he can do whatever he wants, however he wants, whenever he wants. However, what is not exactly revealed to us is how, within all the water below the expanse, dry land appeared, other than because God said that dry land should appear. From what we think we know about the makeup of the dry land, or the earth as we know it, there is some type of core of some material that may be different than the dry land we walk on, although no one has ever dug that deep to know for sure. There is a lot of speculation presented as fact, but only God knows how he gathered all the water into one place and spoke the dry land into existence. He also spoke all the vegetation to appear, to grow from the earth, or the dry land, which he left the rest of it water, and he called the sea. Just pondering on the sea, it was once part of the surface of the deep over which the Spirit of God hovered.  When we touch the sea, we are touching where the Spirit hovered. When we walk the land, we are walking on that which God spoke into being, and when we eat a fruit or vegetable, or some other product of vegetation, we are enjoying what God spoke into existence. In fact, most of us are living within a structure that has been taken from the seed-bearing plants, the wood of trees. Everything we have is a result of God's spoken word. Has man developed new things? That idea makes it sound as if mankind can create, but we can only discover that which God has already done. We can explore all that he has created to a point, for we are still limited to a finite portion of his creation. We think we know how our bodies are made; however, we cannot explain how we are alive or what makes us know who we are. So when we think we can explain the makeup of the earth, the dry land, the sea, we are still just men, and can only take the word of God as the absolute truth. He caused it to happen the way he decided and how he decided. It is just that simple. Mankind wants to explain it in its terms and on its timetable, but it is all about God's terms and His timetable. The land, the sea, and the plants were all created on the third day.