Day 2

Genesis 1:6-8, Isaiah 55:10-11

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Hi, everybody, I’m Pastor Pittenger. Today, we’re going to talk about the second day of creation and we read about this, in the very first page of our Bible, Genesis, Chapter 1.

And God said, let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water. And God made the expanse and he separated the waters that were above from the waters that were below. And it was so and God called the expanse, heaven, sky. And there was evening and there was morning the second day. (Genesis 1:6-8)

So that’s Genesis 1:6-8. So on that second day, God created a space between these waters that he had made waters up above and waters down below. And he created the sky, a scientist might call it the atmosphere. When I was a kid, I always thought that the second day of creation must have been a really easy day for God, because all he did was separate those waters up above and down below. But there’s a lot more to it than that.

The sun, which he won’t make for two more days yet, the sun sends radiation to the earth. And radiation is a kind of energy or light that we can’t see. But it can make us very sick and it can even kill us. Well the sky keeps that radiation from getting all the way down to us. Scientists called that part of the sky, the stratosphere. And there’s another part of the sky that scientists call the troposphere. And this one is really cool. The troposphere is where the air warms up during the day with the sun and then where it cools off at night. And all that heating and cooling makes clouds. And so then it makes rain and it makes our wind. So our weather, the weather you’re having right now, comes from the troposphere that God created.

It’s not even going to be until the third day that God will create plants, but look how he’s already protecting them from radiation and providing rain for water, all the things that God has made, he cares for them all. Listen to this Bible verse

Just as the rain and the snow come down from the sky and do not return there unless they first water the earth, make it give birth, and cause it to sprout, so that it gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater, in the same way my word that goes out from my mouth will not return to me empty. Rather, it will accomplish whatever I please, and it will succeed in the purpose for which I sent it. (Isaiah 55:10-11)

That’s Isaiah 55:10-11. And right there that part of the Bible tells us that God’s word makes our faith grow just like rain makes plants grow. God’s word. Like God’s word that you hear when you go to church. Or like when mom and dad read to you from the Bible or from a Bible story. Or even like God’s word that you hear in these Devotions that you watch on your computer. Now, we might not understand exactly how God makes all this work, but that’s OK. God says it does and he makes sure that it does.

The faith that God causes to grow is faith in him, his promise that he loves us and that he will save us. Its faith in Jesus, who is our Savior and who lived and who died and who rose again for us. So just like a rain shower, that cool water refreshes a thirsty plant, God’s word and the promises here, in God’s word, refresh our faith and our soul and give our faith exactly what faith needs to stay alive.

This, I know, for the Bible tells me so.