Creating by Making
Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. – Genesis 1:16
We continue to explore the creative principles of God; a legacy He has also bestowed to humans. Today, we will be considering the principle of creation by making, or doing the gritty work to build, construct, form or make what needs to be created.
Drawing from our reference scripture today, the Bible says God “made” two great lights. The word “made” there suggests working with hands. Therefore, God did not just decree everything into being and wham! they appeared, He also got His hands dirty by building, forming, crafting, constructing and making what He wanted to create.
The principle of creating by making was what God used to create the likes of clouds (firmament), sea creatures, animals, ants, and His masterpiece, humans. These can be seen in the excerpts below:
Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. – Genesis 1:7
So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. – Genesis 1:21
And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. – Genesis 1:25
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. – Genesis 1:27
So, apart from using imagination, the inner eye, to see what could be, and then declaring, separating or extracting them into being, God also got to work to make some of His creatures. The words, ‘separate’ and ‘extract’ on their own already hinting at work being done.
Therefore, God worked to make His creatures, and He must have worked very hard too. That is why the Bible says, “On the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.” (Genesis 2:2).
Our God is a working God. And He has made us in His likeness. So we have no excuse not to work as well.
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