Genesis 1:24-25. Let!

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 Genesis 1:24-25 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast on the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good."

    First God says “Let the earth bring forth the living creature,” and then the text says “God made the beast of the earth.” Like me, you may be tempted to ask, “So did the earth bring forth the creatures, or did God? But that is the wrong question, because it sets you up to believe in the exclusion of one of the two options that the text explicitly includes. What to some minds appears to be a contradiction, in fact highlights a profound truth repeated elsewhere in Scripture: God is a collaborator. Everything He makes has a specific place and function that serves a definite, unselfish purpose with the continuation of His work. Could God have made the animals without involving the earth? Of course, but that is not the way He choses to work. To you and me, earth that we are, as well as to the rest of His creation, He says “Let…” If you will obey that simple Word by responding, “Yes Lord, I am willing,” with your actions as well as your words, you will discover that in God’s every command is the power to make it a reality.


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Ezra James
The Word of God is bread from heaven. God sent it, but we must gather it, appreciate it, digest it, and live by it. These days it is increasingly scarce. Many are starving for it and don't know it because they keep feasting on bad bread that doesn't satisfy. But if we would learn to carefully gather up the fragments of the True, Heavenly Bread of Life, we would always enjoy a feast of crumbs, because even God's crumbs are miracles mighty to save (Mark 7:24-30). ESPAÑOL: La Palabra de Dios es pan del cielo. Dios lo envió, pero debemos recogerlo, apreciarlo, digerirlo y vivir por él. Hoy en día es cada vez más escaso. Muchos están muriendo de hambre por falta de él sin saberlo porque se alimentan de pan falso que no satisface. Pero si aprendiéramos a recoger cuidadosamente los fragmentos del Verdadero Pan Celestial, Pan de Vida, siempre disfrutaríamos de un banquete de migajas, porque hasta las migajas de Dios son milagros poderosos para salvar (Marcos 7:24-30).