Q. 9. What is creation?
A. Creation is God’s making everything out of nothing by His powerful word in six days – and all very good.
Behold it was very good. (Genesis 1:12, 18, 25).
For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, (1 Tim. 4:4)
Thoughts: Creation is not made evil. We do not need to hate the material in order to lvoe the spiritual. However, creation has been corrupted so that the beauty and purity of creation is tarnished and polluted. Creation is not perfect- so all doesn't go smoothly in life. Yet there are glimpses that life today is not the way it was designed to be or ought to be. In a similar way, we can sense that God is more distant from us than He should be. Our sins separate us from God. There once was a unity that is not divided by our sin. There is a gulf between us and God, us and neighbors, and us and ourselves. Yet we innately know that love for God, for neighbor, and others is the best way.
Prayer: You are good, O Lord. Your goodness radiates into your creation. Forgive us and restore us to your love.
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