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: “[Observe here] 2. That common providence is a continued creation, and in it our Father worketh hitherto. The earth still remains under the efficacy of this command, to bring forth grass, and herbs, and its annual products; and though, being according to the common course of nature, these are not standing miracles, yet they are standing instances of the unwearied power and unexhausted goodness of the world’s great Maker and Master.
Clay Miller: Matthew Henry made me think about nature vs. the miraculous. When all I see around me, (trees, plants, grass, water, light, etc…) was first created, it was all a miracle. It transitioned into natural phenomena, that which we are familiar with, processes we have come to expect and understand. But we should take the time to see it all for what it was originally…a miracle, an evidence of God’s power. We still do that with babies. We still see the miraculous nature of birth many times. But it is everywhere. The wind blowing; The light allowing us to see everything else; the grass we are getting ready to cut because it continues to re-grow; the buds we see on trees, etc…It is all a bunch of original miracles we should stop and consider so as to worship and praise the God who had such power and wisdom to create it all.
