Genesis 1:20-25 – God cares!

In Genesis 1:11-13, we learned that on the third day of creation, God brought forth a variety of vegetation. Plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed came forth. They were of different species and varieties, capable of multiplying themselves. We praise God that unlike artificial plants, vegetation breathe and have life. Plants and trees are life forms. From science, we are told that oxygen is produced in the process of photosynthesis initiated by light. In the process, green plant convert energy from the sun and transform carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen. In respiration, plant produces carbon dioxide as a metabolic by-product. How marvellous it is to think that God even thinks about oxygen and carbon dioxide equation for life. We need oxygen for healthy living and carbon dioxide for rest. And God created vegetation to bring the balance.

After God had created the luminaries to regulate the days, years and seasons on the fourth day, He then worked on creating creatures of the sea and birds of the air. These He made on the fifth day. Fishes and sea creatures of all kinds, huge and small, came into being. They teemed the seas since then and still do today. Notice that God created the environment for them first. He had the open space created on the second day, and the seas and earth formed on the third day. All these, of course, were to prepare the living habitat for plants, the creatures of the sea and of the air that He would soon create. How thoughtful! God’s creative genius is more than what our mind can fathom and explore! On the same fifth day, God not only brought forth the sea creatures, He also brought forth the winged birds of the air. Again they came in all shapes and sizes. Truly God loves variety. He made all things – plants, seas creatures and birds of the air in all varieties and species.      

Here we can see that God only makes good stuff. For when God saw the works of His creation, the creatures of the sea and the air, He was deeply satisfied. So we are told that everything created so far was good. In verse 22 God commanded these sea creatures and birds to be fruitful and multiply. They were blessed and commanded to fill the seas and earth. So He made different species and He made them capable of multiplying and reproducing themselves after their kind. God loves variety and He also loves abundance. This suggests that God must have the capacity to sustain them all. He had taken upon Himself to take care and to provide for the needs of His creation. If God already thought about these life-forms and creatures, and care about them that are less valuable than us man, His crown creation, how much more will He consider us?

Hence the Psalmist’s summation in Psalm 8:3-4 is this, “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; what is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him?” 

Then again think of what Jesus said in Matthew 6:26, “Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?” He truly cares for us!