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MONDAY JUNE 26


VERY GOOD!

TODAY’S READING
Genesis 1:24-31
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Then God looked
over all he had
made, and he saw
that it was very
good! Genesis 1:31 NLT
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Some days seem to have a theme running through them. Recently I had one of those days. Our pastor began his sermon on Genesis I with two minutes of brethtaking, time-lapse photography of blossoming flowers. Then, at home, a scroll through social media revealed numerous posts of flowers. Later on a walk in the woods, the wildflowers of spring surrounded us__trulliums, marsh marigolds, and wild iris.

God created flowers and every other variety of vegetation (and dry ground to grow in), on the third day of creation. And twice on that day, God pronounced it “good” (GEN 1:10, 12). On only one other day of creation__the sixth__did God make that double pronouncement of “good” (vv.25, 31). In fact, on this day when He created humans and His masterpiece was complete, He looked over all He had made and “saw that it was very good! (NLT).

In the creation story, we see a creator God who delighted in His creation__and semed to take joy in the very act of creating. Why else design a world with such colorful and amazing variety? and He saved the best for last when He “created mankind in his own image” (v.27). As His image__bearers we are blessed and inspirid by His beautiful handiwork. __Alyson kieda

**Dear creator God, thank You for creating the world in all its beauty
for our enjoyment__and Yours. Thank You too for making us in Your image so that we would be inspiried to create.
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All creation bears God’s autograph.

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