My children are very much on my mind right now, especially the fact that they love to just play in the water, whether it's outside by the hose, in the swimming pool, or right inside the house in their bathtubs. They love the feel of it; they revel in its refreshing purity. They love to let it seep into every pour of their bodies.
I wonder if God felt the same way those first few days of creation. He spent three days dealing with the water on the earth, and I wouldn't be surprised if he held as much joy in his heart creating this world as my children have playing during their bath times.
On the second day of creation, He commanded the earth to have an expanse between the waters to separate the waters from the waters. He gave the Word. And He put in this huge air pocket that surrounds the earth, containing every type of gas that we would need as human beings would need, as well as that which the animals and the plants would need. This expanse He called "sky."
Even now we look up into the sky and can see clouds. What are those clouds? Why, they are the very waters in the clouds as described in Genesis 1:7. They are the waters above the expanse! What happens if they get too heavy with water? It rains. It cannot be contained in the sky any longer, but must come down and join the earth. That's what He created on the second day. There was evening, and there was morning. And this was the second day.
So what happened next? Once again, the Almighty Creator spoke. He called all the water under the sky to be gathered to one place, to be connected, and He said, "Let the dry ground appear." He said it, and once again, it was so. Just like that, He said it, and it was so. God called the dry ground "land," and the waters upon the earth He called "seas."
He made the dry land appear! First the earth has no form and is empty. Then there are waters and God moves upon them, separates them, and then calls forth the dry land. Did God stand there and say how awesome it was, how majestic, how creative and ingenious it was? Nope, you guessed it. He saw that it was good. Evidently, He is not a God of exaggeration. It was good. May I one day be as good to Him as that perfect world He created!
Once He has the earth primed and ready, He speaks the word once again and creates. He told the earth to bring forth plants, trees, grass, flowers, vegetation. He called forth the plants that bear seeds, each having their own kind, their own make up. In all His wisdom, knowledge of botany (of course, for He created it), He set in motion even then for a rose to bring forth a rose and an orange to bring forth an orange. Because of the laws of nature that He set in motion, we cannot plant a peach seed and get a pomegranate tree. How much imagination He must have to make so many different types of plants and to encode each of them with their own ability to produce after their own kind!
Once again, God saw that it was good. Not great, not super, it wasn't fantastic. It was good. There was the evening and the morning, and the third day was complete.
Go back to that good part. God created a perfect world from a formless void. I was once like that. I was aimless, without focus, wandering aimlessly with no apparent focus. But then God formed me. He moved over the rivers of my heart and stirred my innermost being. He cleansed me with His flow. He separated my desires, showing me what was good and acceptable, what was for immediate use, and what will be when the time is right. He planted His seed of love in my heart. He put only good seeds inside the fertile ground of my soul to bear fruit in its time, fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, and the like.
I think He enjoys fashioning our hearts, just as He moved over the face of the waters and created the sky. He revels in calling forth the dry land so we can stand firm on His foundation. He loves planting the seeds of His desire in our hearts. For my part, when the day is over, I hope and pray that he will look at me and see that it was good.
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