Genesis 1

I have read through the Bible before..actually a few times cover to cover. Currently I am doing the same however, this time I am allowing myself the luxury of sitting down to think and imagine when I a stumble over one of the "roots" of this "tree". It reminds me of the walks I took in the woods after school or during hot, boring summer days as a boy when I would stop to watch a hawk or lay down to listen to the breeze in the leaves.

You'd think I'd have more to say about the creation account in Genesis 1, and I would if this were a formal Bible study...but it's not.

Verses 11-13 resonate at this time because I am, as I always do, marveling at the tiny sprouts of carrots, butternut squash, onions, spinach, and mustard greens emerging from a hard, dry, not beautiful, apparently dead seed. So small, tender, and vulnerable but holding the promise of good things to come.

"And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit- trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth:and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind:and God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a third day."

A preacher from another, distant congregation visited ours and spoke one Sunday evening and his words regarding God's generative power became seeds in my mind which have continued to sprout and grow themselves. He said "We can count the number of seeds in a fruit and extrapolate the number of fruit produced and following this, perform the same multiplication using the number of fruit to tell the number of future seeds and so forth and so on. God knows the number of trees in a seed."

These thoughts reveal to me that I can generate nothing, that God prepares marvels of provision for His children, and that so long after the world was twisted out of shape by sin - seeds still obey their divine instructions for my benefit. In my better moments...I am grateful.