Scripture

Our verse for today comes from Genesis 1:31, “Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”

Background

Monday morning quarterback. Hindsight is twenty-twenty. These expressions clearly convey a tactic that each of us specializes in from time to time, and that would be having wisdom after the fact. We’ve all seen things crystal clear the day after, or understood the why’s and the how’s after something is said and done. And many times it’s painfully obvious what we should have done differently, but at the time we couldn’t see it that way. During the first week of our world, God accomplished a lot. In fact, He made everything from which everything else has ever come. And when He would reach the end of a day of creating out of nothing, He would look back over His creation and say it was good. As He filled space with light and the stars and the Earth, and as He filled the Earth with plants and animals and our first parents, He said it was good. And when He was finished, our verse says that He saw everything that He had made. As vast and grand and detailed and minute as it might have been, He saw it all, and all of it together was not good, but very good.

Application

Nothing escaped His notice, and nothing failed His test. There was no need to second guess part of His plan or one of His designs. Nothing better came to mind upon further review. He had done it all, and it all was very good. Each creation was as it had been intended, operating with all the rest of creation to carry our His plan and design. Monday morning came, and God had thrown no interceptions, committed no errors, and made no mistakes. But our days tend to be slightly different. We can’t see all that we have done, or all that we are doing. We cannot know the full effect we are having on everyone else around us. That is why it is so important to live your days surrendered to the Lordship of Christ. We can’t foresee the ripple effect that we create, and we certainly can’t undo it. Our only hope is to lay our life down, with its self-interests and limited foresight, and take up the life of the cross of Christ. That is what makes everything good now. And it can make you very good.

Charge

As we seek Him today, don’t waste your time wallowing in regret or reliving past failures. Let contrition and repentance and forgiveness lead you back to Who is very good, and wallow around there for a while.

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