He made the Stars Also: (Genesis 1:14-19)

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 01/05/2006

My Worship Time                                                           Focus:  Creation on the forth day.

Bible Reading & Meditation                                     Reference:  Genesis 1:14-19

            Message of the verse:  “14 Then God said, ‘Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth’; and it was so.  16  God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.17  God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.  19  There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.”

            In verses fourteen through it can be seen that God created the sun and the moon and all of the stars in order to separate the light from the darkness, the day from the night.  There was already light upon the earth, but now by creating the sun, moon and the stars there would be light in the heavens as well as on the earth.  The sun, moon and stars would be used to divide the days, and the seasons. 

            It did not take people too long after the fall of man to begin to worship the stars, and later on when God had to scramble the languages, it was because men began to chart and to worship the stars, and this surely was not the purpose of them being made, for only God deserves all worship and glory given to Him.

            At the end of day four’s creation God again said that it was good. 

These last three days of creation were the filling of the heavens and the earth which had been created on the first three days.

            Notice from the highlighted portion of verse 16 “He made the stars also.”  This kind of seems like an afterthought when you think about it.  God spends most of the creation week making planet earth and then Moses writes that God also made the stars too.  Something to think about.

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I guess that this part of God’s creation gives me the most trouble in my mind, and I suppose that the better that I get to know my Creator the less trouble that it should give me.  The problem is why God created all of the billions and billions of stars that, at least for now, man cannot even see.  Were these done for the purpose of man or does God have another reason?  The more that I ponder all of this, I believe that God did this because He loves His creation that much, for if He was willing to have His only Son die for His creation, then the issue with the stars should be answered in my mine that it was out of love He did this.

The Word of God has been very challenging to my heart as I read and studied His Word this afternoon.

My Steps of Faith Today:  Continue to trust the Lord to guide my steps and to teach me contentment.