Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. No one can prove to us that God made the world; but faith, which is stronger than all arguments, makes us certain of it. 1. All which God has made is good, as He is, and, therefore, if anything in the world seems to be bad, one of two things must be true of it. (1) Either it is not bad, though it seems so to us, and God will bring good out of it in His own good time; or(2) if the thing is really bad, then God did not make it. It must be a disease, a mistake, a failure of man's malting, or of some person's making, but not of God's making. For all that He has made He sees eternally, and, behold, it is very good. 2. God created each of us good in His own mind, else He would not have created us at all. Why does God's thought of us, God's purpose about us, seem to have failed? We do not know, and we need not know. Whatever sin we inherited from Adam, God looks on us now, not as we are in Adam, but as we are in Christ. God looks not on the old corrupt nature which we inherited from Adam, but on the new and good grace which God has meant for us from all eternity, which Christ has given us now. III. That which is good in us God has made; He will take care of what He haw made, for He loves it. All which is bad in us God has not made, and therefore He will destroy it; for He hates all that He has not made, and will not suffer it in His world. Before all worlds, from eternity itself, God said, "Let Us make man in Our likeness," and nothing can hinder God's word but the man himself. If a man loves his fallen nature better than the noble, just, loving grace of God, and gives himself willingly up to the likeness of the beasts that perish, then only can God's purpose towards him become of none effect. (C. Kingsley, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. |
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