Understanding God: He is Methodical
Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” 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. And God saw that it was good. – Genesis 1:20-21
In continuation of our meditation on the nature of God, another of His attributes which we shall explore today is process and organization. He is a methodical God. I remember a scenario that happened some years ago, two of my colleagues were talking and one cited an African saying that “the chicken was feeding on something else before the maize was created.” This maxim is often used to chastise someone who is depriving another of a means of livelihood, thus implying that the person being denied would get by, nonetheless.
Although, I was not part of the conversation, I couldn’t help myself from cutting in and refuting that the adage could not be farther from the truth, as God did not create the chicken before the feed. He is not mindless. Rather, He created everything in a logical sequence such that none was left hanging because the support system they needed either in form of feeding or housing were not in place.
He is very methodical and is systematic in His ways. If you read the story of creation again, you would appreciate the thoughtful way God does His business. He had everything planned out and did not put the horse before the cart in any of His works. Everything He created had the facility to nurture and sustain the next creature, thus showing a natural progression until the very end. He had the oceans in place before He created sea creatures; the same way with animals, He had created the earth before making them. By the time He was creating His masterpiece, humans, He had everything in place for their basic sustenance.
He did not launch into creating humans first because He was eager to replicate Himself only to start wondering what they would feed on and where they would stay. He had all those in place prior. This is a big deal attribute because the world is full of people who literally put the cart before the horse and jump into things without first pausing to think through what they need to do and how they would need to achieve it.
The good news is that we are all created in the image and likeness of God. The question is how methodical and organized are you? Do you think through before you start or you are the type who starts first and then start to figure out the intricacies as you proceed?
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