His Pleasure

 DEVOTION

GENESIS

HIS PLEASURE

Gen 1:14-19

14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the Earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning — the fourth day.

NIV

The Sun, the Moon, and the whole universe came into being on the fourth day of creation just because God spoke. We know the ancients, like Moses, did not understand the universe as mankind does today. The Ancients could have thought the Sun traveled across Earth's sky, then returned at night, while the moon traveled across to return the next day, and that this process repeated. They did not understand the total complexity of the Earth being set at a precise distance and in an orbit around the Sun, which God spoke into existence, to give both light and heat to the surface of the Earth. Everything about our solar system is in perfect order; nothing is out of place. The Earth spins perfectly at just the right angle to give everything on it just the right amount of light, warmth, and seasonality for a precise reason.  God left nothing out, or by chance, for he created a perfect environment for man, who would be his crowning glory of creation.  Although we are new earthers, believing God created all that is created in six days, and that, from the genealogy of man, it is evident the Earth is somewhere between six and seven thousand years old, no matter what some might believe that it is millions of years old. Still, for the Sun to shine, to burn gases, or flares of gas for thousands of years, never diminishing or expanding, but remaining constant, can only be due to the absolute authority of God. This holds true in his creation of the moon at its perfect distance from the Earth to affect the tides of the waters, while reflecting the light of the Sun at night, as it rotates around the Earth. This could not have happened by chance, but only by the divine will of God. Everything he did, even though he created this perfect environment for us, was for his own pleasure. All the Earth, the Sun, Moon, the stars, the whole expanse of the universe is for his pleasure. Which brings us to ourselves. Although we are still ahead in the process of creation, we are here for his pleasure. All of creation is for the pleasure of God; he would not need or do anything, for he is enough because he is God. Creation was for his pleasure.