As I read the first chapter of the book of Genesis, I am struck by the fact that the entire universe, and planet earth, was silent from all human contribution. No speech, no arguments, no battle cries, no sounds of industrialization, no car horns, and no man made music. Nothing. Just the sounds of nature created by God.
I can imagine Him as he sits back in His celestial chair and surveys all that He had made. He must have enjoyed His creation because He said that it was good. And everything that He made, from stars in distant galaxies, to a frog in a Louisiana bayou, pleased Him. It was all good. And it was all mane for His man.
I wonder if He’s rested much since, as his finest creation, mankind, has never stopped since. And yet God breathed His own breath into man to finish His creation. The Hebrew word for breath used is in Genesis 2:7 is “neshamah” which means spirit. Some experts have said it also means blood. Imagine this, if in fact the blood and the Spirit of God were breathed into Adam, our great grandfather many generations removed, then our blood and our spirit comes from the same place. God! One day we’ll learn everything about all these mysteries. The Bible says…
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.“ (Genesis 2:1-3)
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