01.01.2016 Old Testament: Gen 1.20–23

To read the Bible in a year, read Genesis 1–2 on January 1, In the year of our Lord 2016

By Don Ruhl

How much life resides in the seas? How many birds fill the skies? How much food exists on the Earth to feed all those creatures? How did all that life get appear?

Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” So the evening and the morning were the fifth day (Genesis 1.20–23). 

God said for them to be and they were! He enjoyed viewing the good things that He had put in the seas and in the skies. Then He blessed them, telling them to multiply, and they have done just as He ordered. See nature today and glorify the God of all creation.