God Makes Everything

“And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good.” — Genesis 1:31

Long, long ago, before there were any people or animals or trees, before there was even a sky or a sun, there was God. God has always been there. He never had a beginning, and He will never have an end.

In the beginning there was no world at all, only deep, dark water, and everything was empty. But God was there, and God spoke.

“Let there be light,” God said, and there was light! God saw that the light was good. He called the light “day” and the darkness “night”. That was the first day.

On the second day God made the sky, high above the waters, like a great blue roof.

On the third day God gathered the waters together into seas, and dry land appeared. Then God said, “Let the land grow plants,” and all at once the earth was green. There was grass and there were flowers, and trees heavy with apples and figs and every kind of fruit.

On the fourth day God made the lights in the sky: the bright, hot sun to rule the day, and the soft, silver moon to rule the night. And He made the stars too, so many that no one could ever count them.

On the fifth day God filled the seas with swimming creatures: tiny fish and enormous whales, wriggly ones and spotty ones. And He filled the sky with birds that flapped and swooped and sang.

On the sixth day God made the animals that live on the land: lions and lambs, elephants and ants, cows and kangaroos and creepy-crawly beetles.

Then God made something even more special. He made people. “So God created man in His own image” (Genesis 1:27). That means people are like God in a special way. We can think and love and talk with Him. God made a man and a woman, and He blessed them, and gave them the whole wonderful world to look after.

God looked at everything He had made: the light and the sky, the seas and the land, the plants and the stars, the fish and the birds and the animals and the people. And it was very, very good.

On the seventh day God rested. He wasn’t tired, because God never gets tired. He rested because His work was finished, and He made the seventh day a special day of rest.

Everything you can see, the sun that wakes you up, the trees and the rain, the dog next door and the stars at night, God made it all. And He made you too.

Looking ahead to Jesus: The Bible tells us that God’s Son, Jesus, was there at the very beginning. “Through Him all things were made” (John 1:3). The One who made the stars would one day come to live on the earth He had made.

Read it in your Bible: Genesis 1:1–2:3

Dear God, thank you for making the whole world, and for making me. Thank you that everything you make is good. Amen.