DEVOTION
GENESIS
BLESSED BY GOD
Gen 1:20-23
20 And God said, "Let the
water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the
expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and
every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their
kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was
good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number
and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth."
23 And there was evening, and there was morning — the fifth day.
NIV
Perhaps we should consider for a
moment that all sea life, every living creature that lives in the water, which
we could not possibly even attempt to determine the number or the kinds, exists
because of God. We think the whole point of those who believe in a theory of
evolution is to discredit creation, in fact, to disregard creation as having
any validity at all, which then gives them a self-generated belief that there
is no God, or that if there is, he had no hand in the beginning of life in some
premortal substance. However, we merely need to observe the great variety of
life in the seas and of the birds that take flight in the air to know that only
God could have spoken them into being. Then when we ponder on all of the sea
creatures and birds and that God blessed them and told them, spoke to them to
be fruitful and increase in number, for them to do so would mean they understood
him. Because of his greatness and authority over all that he created, he gave
them the ability to hear and understand him. That boggles our mind and gives us
a different view of all life on this earth. If all the living things in the
water and all the birds of the air are aware of their creator, how much more
should we be, for we are made in God's image, and are of only one variety, with
some slight differences in our physical appearance. Of course, all the birds of
the air have similarities; sea life has great differences: some are mammals,
others fish, and still others are neither, but all of them exist from the voice
of God. That gives way to our lives, which we will explore in much detail on the
sixth day, but in the meantime, we should know that the purpose of all the life
in the sea and the birds in the air is all for the pleasure of God, which then
means so are we. We have life for the pleasure of God. If God blessed all the
life in the sea, and all the birds of the air, how much more does he bless us? All
life is blessed by God.
