Day 3:
God made all that we see around us. Everything we look at, or hear, or touch was made by God. He had a plan for how everything would look and work. His plan started with time. Let there be light. He created the light and the day and night. He started time on Day one. Then he created the world with an atmosphere. He made water all over the world, and air for us to breathe on Day two.
But God didn't just want water animals on His earth. He had in mind a beautiful world with all different kinds of things, and some of these things needed something other than water to live on. We could live on a boat in the water for a while, but we would want to go somewhere else eventuallly!
Genesis 1:9- And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Perhaps the water started to bubble. I'm certain it moved as dry land rose up. All the water started to create waves that rolled off the Dry land. God made the world to have both water and dry land. That was what was needed for His plan to work.
Genesis 1:10- And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
And he named it "Earth". Imagine that! God named our planet! This beautiful world would, from then on, be known as Earth. And the water would be known as "seas".
Psalm 95:5- The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
If you looked around, however, you would have seen nothing. It was like a desert. There was land, but that was all. For God's creation, there had to be more! He knew just what he needed to do!
Genesis 1:11- And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
At the voice of God the land started to change. There were little sprouts coming out of the ground. Some grew tall into trees. Some grew beautiful flowers of all different colors. Some grew food to eat. Not only did God make all these plants, but he gave them beautiful colors and designs that made them different from each other.
Genesis 1:12- And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
But there was one thing more that he gave these plants. He gave them the ability to produce more. God made seeds! Seeds that when you planted them would grow another plant just like the one you took the seed from. A tomato seed would grow a tomato plant. A flower seed would grow a flower. A tree seed would grow a tree. That way His creation could continue for as long as it needed to.
This is the first living thing that God created. It needed light, water, and carbon monoxide to coninue living. God made all these things in the first two days of creation. God always provides what we need even before we know we need it!
Genesis 1:13- And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Some people think that God made the world, and then let it set for billions of years before he made anything else. But that's not what the Bible teaches! The Bible says that God made this world with all the plants on Day three. Just one day; 24 hours. And the evening and the morning were the third day. Not billions of years. Just one day!
