Genesis 1:9-13
Then God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. 10And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good. 11Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so. 12And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13So the evening and the morning were the third day.
Matthew Henry: “ II. How the earth was furnished for the maintenance and support of man, v. 11, 12. Present provision was now made, by the immediate products of the upstart earth, which, in obedience to God’s command, was no sooner made than it became fruitful, and brought forth grass for the cattle and herb for the service of man. Provision was likewise made for time to come, by the perpetuating of the several kinds of vegetables, which are numerous, various, and all curious, and every one having its seed in itself after its kind, that, during the continuance of man upon the earth, food might be fetched out of the earth for his use and benefit. Lord, what is man, that he is thus visited and regarded —that such care should be taken, and such provision made, for the support and preservation of those guilty and obnoxious lives which have been a thousand times forfeited!Clay Miller: So much of our lives are dependent, and though we sin against God, He continues to provide us food and water. God created the vegetation in an instant. It did not take umpteen billion years to evolve it. He displayed His power, and He provided a record of it in Genesis for us to see the display. What is sad is how much of it we miss. Even more sad is how people, instead of seeing God’s greatness and utter otherness from creatures, instead choose to dismiss this as “impossible”…mainly because they cannot do something like it so why should some other being be able to. But God has much to say in so little an account. It was really nothing to Him to create. And His creating was done with much wisdom in its provision for a mega operation He was about to create to inhabit and work the planet.
I love how Genesis 1:1 sort of says “duh” to the discovery of DNA. DNA makes sure that things reproduce “according to its kind”. Long before DNA was discovered, the Bible covered this fact. DNA is a design. It is a system. It is a code. It is another great proof of a Designer. And, like all of nature, it is shouting to the people to seek God in Scripture so you can know who you are, who He is, and what you need to be reconciled to Him, because as you will discover in the Bible, your life is an offense to Him…yet He keeps on giving you breath, life and sustenance. More later.
