Pam Padgett ... teacher
While considering that God sets us in the body of Christ to function in the body according to His will (1 Corinthians 12), I was led to Genesis where we are told about
God creating the heavens, earth, and all that is in them ...
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the
face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4 And
God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the
darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called
Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of
the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God
made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the
firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning
were the second day.
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. 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. 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. 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. 13 And the
evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and
for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in
the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And
God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the
light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the
evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the
open firmament of heaven. 21 And God created great whales, and every
living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly,
after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that
it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and
multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the
earth. 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living
creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the
earth after his kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beast of the
earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that
creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in
his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female
created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29 And God said,
Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face
of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree
yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the
earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth
upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for
meat: and it was so. 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.
God not only made all things, but He set each thing where He willed, and gave instruction to each, as well as the ability to do what He ordained for it to do.
The sun, moon, and stars were set in the
heaven to give light as well as to be for signs, seasons, days, and years. Each day the sun lights the day and the moon and stars light the night. God set the sun, moon, and stars in the sky in
exactly the places He chose, and God gave them the ability to give light, the sun having a greater light than the moon.
God also set each living creature in place according to His will ...
fowls fly in the sky, fish live in the sea, man and other creatures live
on dry land. And God has provided food for each creature and the ability to
be fruitful and multiply. Each creature is set in place and given the
ability to do according to what God has ordained for it.
Thinking on these things strengthens my faith in God giving us the ability to do according to His will as HE has set us in the body
of Christ, God working in us by His Spirit.