I’ve never been into debating creation theories. You know the ones; was it a literal 7 days, or was each day representative of a thousand days etc. The main reason I don’t want the debate is because I’m just not too bothered. I believe that God created everything and the ’how’ has never been something I’ve been too concerned about. That’s my introduction before you read the rest!

Because as I’ve been reading the creation story again, I’ve seen so many things that fascinate me. After the Genesis 1 overall account of creation and all God had made, Genesis 2 seems to take a deep dive into the story. In verses 5 and 6 we read the following.

Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. Genesis 2:5-6

It is interesting to read in Genesis 1 that God had created plants and trees but in Genesis 2 me hear that they weren’t matured yet. My original impression of creation was that when God created vegetation they were fully formed but this verse seems to suggest that God’s creating took the form of putting their seed in the earth so that creation would partner with Him in bringing forth life. I also love that without us tending to it, creation looked after itself!

I’m not trying to make any big theological statement here. What I’m trying to see is just now ingrained Gods partnership and process is in our lives.

So often as humans we want God to do things in us instantaneously. We want the gift to magically land in our hands, but in my experience this is rarely how God does it. Instead He plants the ability to do it in our hearts and then waters it so it can grow at the pace it was meant too.

Lets not be too quick to have the finished article, lets remember to allow God to create and plant in us in the same way He did with creation in the beginning.