Introduction. As God planned and made each portion of His creation, He gave it a responsibility and a specific role, seeking the perfection of the whole. Everything had a role and as each did its part, the whole became perfect. On each day of creation, God saw that all that He made was good. On the final day, He saw the completed creation and declared it was very good. (Gen. 1:31). Birds were given a body to fly and fish were created to live under water. Even the sun, clouds and the earth were given bodies necessary to accomplish their work. The function of each body in the material creation never varied and never failed. They were dependable because having no will of their own, they only and perfectly did God’s will. Since God is faithful and they do His will, they too are faithful.
Man is different. He too was given a work, but had the freewill to do God’s will or his own. Adam and Eve were created to tend the garden and were given an ordinance not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. As long as they did this the creation remained perfect. When Satan’s lies led them to break the ordinance and replace God’s will with their own, they died and the creation was cursed. (Gen. 2:17; Ecc. 1:1-15). Now crooked, lacking, groaning, and travailing, we see clearly that substituting man’s will for God’s only brought sorrow and loss. (Rom. 8:18-24)
- “Your faithfulness endures to all generations; You established the earth, and it abides. 91 They continue this day according to Your ordinances, For all are Your servants.” (Ps. 119:90-91).
Man is different. He too was given a work, but had the freewill to do God’s will or his own. Adam and Eve were created to tend the garden and were given an ordinance not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. As long as they did this the creation remained perfect. When Satan’s lies led them to break the ordinance and replace God’s will with their own, they died and the creation was cursed. (Gen. 2:17; Ecc. 1:1-15). Now crooked, lacking, groaning, and travailing, we see clearly that substituting man’s will for God’s only brought sorrow and loss. (Rom. 8:18-24)