Day 6

Genesis 1:24-25, 2 Samuel 22:6

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Hi, guys. It’s Pastor Pittenger again. And today we’re going to read about the sixth day of creation. So this is from Genesis Chapter 1 verses 24 and 25.

And God said, let the Earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds. And it was so and God made the beasts of the earth according to their kynes and livestock, according to their kinds and everything that creeps along the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

So, one of the things that God made on that sixth day is spiders. Lots of people don’t like spiders, and lots of people, even kind of me, are afraid of spiders. Even though God made people on the same day that he made spiders. That’s kind of funny, isn’t it? But spiders really are amazing creatures.

One of the most amazing things about spiders are its web. I mean, how does that tiny little insect know that if it makes, you know, six or maybe eight straight lines, all from one center point, that it’s going to work out as a web? How does it know to make that little circular pattern around and around and that will be a perfect trap for a fly or for a mosquito? And how come flies and mosquitoes get stuck in spider webs, but spiders don’t get stuck in their own webs? Well, these are just how God made them. And some of the things that that at least I don’t know.

But when that fly or that mosquito does get stuck in the web, that’s the end of it, isn’t it? The spider comes down and wraps it up and wraps it up in more web and then saves it to eat for food later on. So if you were a mosquito or a fly, you might be more afraid of spider webs than people are afraid of spiders.

There’s a place in the Bible where it sounds kind of like King David is talking about being caught, maybe like a bug in a spider web. He says this

The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me. (2 Samuel 22:6)

That’s second Samuel, 22, verse 6. Sheol is a word for grave. Cords and snares are kind of like a web or like rope. But these things aren’t from a spider. These things that David is talking about were the plans and the tricks of a man who wanted to kill David. David called on God in prayer and he called for help and God did just that. A little bit later, David writes about how God rescued him from those traps or those sticky webs of that other man.

And this is good news, because one day we’re going to going to be trapped in the snares of Sheol, the cords of Sheol. We’re going to die and we’re going to be stuck in the grave. And we would be trapped there forever. More like that fly that’s trapped in the spider web all wound up. The fly can’t get out. There’s no way we could ever get out of being dead and being in the grave. But Jesus did. And Jesus will. Jesus did escape from his own snares and cords of the grave from his own death. And Jesus will rescue you from your death and from your grave.

It doesn’t matter how young or small you are, you might think you’re no bigger or more important than a mosquito. Because you know what? Even if you weren’t. But you are. But even if you weren’t any more important, we know what that song, that favorite song of mine, those little ones to him belong. They are weak, but he is strong. So we’ll see you guys later.