Key Words: And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly
Now, I know we've already read this portion of Scripture once; but read it again and again, and then think on this.
Water is preeminently the seat of life. There is not a bay or creek, not a shelf or a sound on the face of the earth that does not teem with life. Even a drop of ditch water can hold 500 million microscopic creatures so small that a teaspoonful of water would be to them what the Atlantic is to us. Those half a billion infusoria can live comfortably in a single drop. They appear in a thousand species, some are herbivorous, some carnivorous, some have shells, and some have none. They posses mouths, teeth, muscles, nerves, and glands. Some species have between one to two hundred sacks or stomachs, connected by an intestinal canal. The thickness of the membranes that line those stomachs have been estimated to be one fifty-millionth part of an inch! Only a God who is infinite could have worked on such a majestic scale as we see in the skies and on such a microscopic scale as we see in the seas. There is no such thing as bigness or smallness to a God who is infinite.
On the sixth day, just prior to the creation of man, God made His final preparation of the earth as man's domain. He created the vertebrates and the "creeping things." Moses gives a threefold classification. He refers to bhemah ("cattle"), four footed domestic animals. He refers to remes ("creeping things"), creatures that move along the ground. The word means "to move" or "to swarm." He refers to chaiyah ("beasts"), the wild animals. Scientists have classified millions of different species of animals, including more than 800,000 different kinds of insects, 30,000 kinds of fish, 9,000 kinds of birds, 6,000 kinds of reptiles, 3,000 kinds of amphibians and 5,000 kinds of mammals. God is truly a God of variety.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞ Praise God! He is a God of variety or all of us would be the same!!
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