The Question 003 | Earth

Creation

003 | Earth

“And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning, the third day.”

Genesis 1.11-13 ESV

Earth. We live on a little blue and green ball wrapped up in air and spinning at an alarming rate though vast and lonely space. We're on a giant ball of shifting rock plates on top of molten lava. Rain falls and gets turned to steam by the sun, rising high into the sky so it can fall again. It gets soaked up by roots and by leaves and gives life wherever it goes.

Think of plants. Think of all the things you eat every day that were once planted in the earth. The grains. The vegetables. The fruits. Wheat, apples, pears, sugar, cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, beans, lettuce, kiwi, pineapple. The list goes on and on and on. We live off the earth. What comes up from the ground gives us life, makes us grow, makes us heal.  We bury the plants we don’t eat back into the dirt and a few weeks later a new plant appears and soon enough we have food that gives us life.

It’s a cycle. It’s a system designed by an intelligent and loving God. We eat because that’s the way the world works. It’s the way God made things work. This system of planting and growing and harvesting and eating is a beautiful, deeply spiritual experience. We were made to grow things, to garden, to prune, to weed, to help growing things to grow. It goes down to the very nature of who we are, made in the image of God, the Great Sustainer.

The Question

In what ways has God already provided what you need?