It occurred to me while reading chapter 1 of Genesis that God is extremely organized. This is the section that I typically blow through as fast as I can because I've already read it many many times. But this time I slowed down and considered just what he was doing. Everything has a place and a purpose. God is truly a God of order and structure. He didn't haphazardly arrange the world, and he didn't do it by accident either. After everything, he tested it and saw that it was good.
This really challenges me to keep things in order and planned. But additionally, to stop and reflect to consider whether it is good or not.
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I noticed that while God was creating order, the main theme was also separation. In Genesis 1:3 God separates light from darkness. He asserts that the light is Good. Then he separates the land from the seas in verse 9. In verse 17, goes back to the theme of separation in which God creates the expanse of sky to give light on the earth, ...and to separate light from darkness (verse 18). Now it really makes you think, repetition is such an important rhetorical device, used to emphasize certain points. The common allusion of light (good) and darkness (assumed bad) may have come from these few verses.
Regardless, I also noticed that "it was good" is stated throughout the passage, yet at verse 31 God states that it was Very good. Interesting because it can lead one to assume God values the sum of all the parts over the individual things that make up the entirety of the world. Which doesn't exactly make sense, haha i might be reading in on this a lil too much.
larry u shady
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