And It Was Good
Good Morning!
In the process of hiring a new delivery person with a limited time to make a decision, I was faced with piles of applications and many people that did not have the qualities we were looking for.
One person we interviewed seemed like a possibility, but there were questions. Thursday afternoon I was praying not to just find the right person, but to be able to do it by 5:00 according to my time restraints. At 3:00 a young man came into the office and he struck me as exceptional. After discussions and interviews, we hired him. I found out later that he did not know we were in process of hiring a driver, he just ‘had a feeling’ he should approach our company. He also made time to fill out the application that day, while at another appointment, and returned the application before 5.
It felt temporarily overwhelming to have so many applications, so many references to check. It felt temporarily impossible to find someone within the time restraint. And it felt sad to realize that each application represented someone desperate for work.
And so this experience presented a small opportunity to trust the goodness and guidance of God in an uncomfortable process.
When we look through eyes of faith in God’s creative power, we will see that all things are working together for good…Romans 8:28
Much Love in Christ,
Joy
#206 And It Was Good Genesis 1:31
“And God saw the light was good.” Genesis 1:4
A similar refrain “God saw that is it good” is repeated in Genesis 1 verses 10, 12, 18, 21, 25.
Through the often tumultuous process of creation God saw “that it was good.”
His creation did not have to be complete for God to see that it was good. Each step of the creation process was necessary. Each step led to the next step. Then on the sixth day, after the creation of animals and the crowning jewel of creation, man and woman, God saw that everything that He made ‘was very good.’ Genesis 1:31
He could say this even though He knew that Adam and Eve would sin, and that the whole world would be thrown into another phase of ‘chaos.’ “He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.” Genesis 2:2 “...on the seventh day He ceased from labor and was refreshed.” Exodus 31:17 He was refreshed because of the beauty of His creation, despite the dark reality of human history which He foreknew. He rested and rejoiced because He knew the end result of blessing through the work of Christ.
Our challenge is to rest and rejoice in the final outcome, despite the creative chaos of the permission of evil around us and in us. The spirit of God broods and hovers over us, and over all the random appearance of circumstance. We do not have to be at the end of our course for God to rejoice in us as His New Creation. We also can rejoice, aware of our immaturity and unresolved issues, because God is at work. Philippians 1:6, 2:12-13
We can rejoice in the process, seeing through the eyes of faith that every step and phase of development “is good”.
One interpretation of the fifth day of creation is that it ended with a big bang, as an asteroid equal to 300 million nuclear weapons hit the earth to end the era of the dinosaur. Even this ‘destructive event’ was part of the ‘good’ process of creation. God’s creative ‘good’ reaches beyond the incremental upheavals to the whole end result of blessing.
“You are good, and what you do is good; teach me your decrees.” Psalm 119:68 NIV
“It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Thy statues.” Psalm 119:71 NASB
Lord, teach us to declare by faith in Your creative power, in the midst of every creative chaos in our lives, that what we see is good.
“The LORD is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.
All you have made will praise you O LORD; your saints will extol you.” Psalm 145:9-10
In the process of hiring a new delivery person with a limited time to make a decision, I was faced with piles of applications and many people that did not have the qualities we were looking for.
One person we interviewed seemed like a possibility, but there were questions. Thursday afternoon I was praying not to just find the right person, but to be able to do it by 5:00 according to my time restraints. At 3:00 a young man came into the office and he struck me as exceptional. After discussions and interviews, we hired him. I found out later that he did not know we were in process of hiring a driver, he just ‘had a feeling’ he should approach our company. He also made time to fill out the application that day, while at another appointment, and returned the application before 5.
It felt temporarily overwhelming to have so many applications, so many references to check. It felt temporarily impossible to find someone within the time restraint. And it felt sad to realize that each application represented someone desperate for work.
And so this experience presented a small opportunity to trust the goodness and guidance of God in an uncomfortable process.
When we look through eyes of faith in God’s creative power, we will see that all things are working together for good…Romans 8:28
Much Love in Christ,
Joy
#206 And It Was Good Genesis 1:31
“And God saw the light was good.” Genesis 1:4
A similar refrain “God saw that is it good” is repeated in Genesis 1 verses 10, 12, 18, 21, 25.
Through the often tumultuous process of creation God saw “that it was good.”
His creation did not have to be complete for God to see that it was good. Each step of the creation process was necessary. Each step led to the next step. Then on the sixth day, after the creation of animals and the crowning jewel of creation, man and woman, God saw that everything that He made ‘was very good.’ Genesis 1:31
He could say this even though He knew that Adam and Eve would sin, and that the whole world would be thrown into another phase of ‘chaos.’ “He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.” Genesis 2:2 “...on the seventh day He ceased from labor and was refreshed.” Exodus 31:17 He was refreshed because of the beauty of His creation, despite the dark reality of human history which He foreknew. He rested and rejoiced because He knew the end result of blessing through the work of Christ.
Our challenge is to rest and rejoice in the final outcome, despite the creative chaos of the permission of evil around us and in us. The spirit of God broods and hovers over us, and over all the random appearance of circumstance. We do not have to be at the end of our course for God to rejoice in us as His New Creation. We also can rejoice, aware of our immaturity and unresolved issues, because God is at work. Philippians 1:6, 2:12-13
We can rejoice in the process, seeing through the eyes of faith that every step and phase of development “is good”.
One interpretation of the fifth day of creation is that it ended with a big bang, as an asteroid equal to 300 million nuclear weapons hit the earth to end the era of the dinosaur. Even this ‘destructive event’ was part of the ‘good’ process of creation. God’s creative ‘good’ reaches beyond the incremental upheavals to the whole end result of blessing.
“You are good, and what you do is good; teach me your decrees.” Psalm 119:68 NIV
“It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may learn Thy statues.” Psalm 119:71 NASB
Lord, teach us to declare by faith in Your creative power, in the midst of every creative chaos in our lives, that what we see is good.
“The LORD is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.
All you have made will praise you O LORD; your saints will extol you.” Psalm 145:9-10
