You Are Very Good : By Pastor Thambidurai

“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” – Genesis 1:31

A wonderful verse for the human is in the bible, “In the beginning God created the heaven(s) and the earth” (Gen.1:1).  No other religious book says very vividly about the creation of universe.  Mankind can be divided into two; creationists and evolutionists.  People who believe that everything on the universe is created by a Creator are known as creationists and people who believe that the things are evolved from one thing to the other, they are evolutionists.  Nevertheless, most of the people believe God, but very few believe a Creator God.  God who created the heavens and the earth is the true and only God, He is a living God.

Recently there was a small article in a news paper saying, without woman man cannot be existed and hence woman is first, but bible refutes this illusion.  As there is a saying, whether mango or mango tree is first; without woman there cannot be a man and without man woman too and none is able to give its answer.  But the holy bible gives correct answer about the creation of everything.  God created everything beautifully and wonderfully because He is Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent.  

The earth which was created by God as saying in Gen.1:1 was beautiful but since the fall of angels the earth became void and without form (Isa.14:12).  This can be compared like bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  After this disastrous, those places became unusable for human habitation.  The earth was filled with waters and the darkness was covered the earth.  

However, Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters with a great faith that He can bring everything in the original form.  He alone can restore it.  First of all he recreated or changed the form of the earth and then He created all things which we now see in the universe.  He created all things for the sake of man and every day He found it as good.  He created not in one day, but it took six days.  In our life also God does things step by step.  Each day God saw His work and found good and at last He found everything very good.

The work of salvation in the life of fallen mankind can be compared to the creation of the universe.  With a great faith, Spirit of God started a good work in the life of each one of us; first he transforms and then He creates certain things in our life.  In each step he look and says, it is good.  He should say this testimony about our life and ministry every day.  

God created 3 things, made 3 things and commanded 7 things;

Verse 1 – created the heavens and the earth

Verse 21 – created great whales and moving things in the water and fowls in the air

Verse 27 – created man

Verse 7 – made the firmament

Verse 16 – made the two great lights and the stars

Verse 25 – made the beast and cattle of the earth

Verse 3 – commanded light

Verse 6 – commanded the firmament in the midst of the waters

Verse 9 – commanded to separate land and sea

Verse 11 – commanded to come up grass, herbs and trees on the earth

Verse 14 – commanded lights in the firmament of the heaven

Verse 20 – commanded moving creatures in the sea and fowls in the air

Verse 24 – commanded creeping things, living creatures and cattle on the earth

He commanded then created and made certain things.  Ten times it is written, “God said” v.3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28.  He said 7 times “it is good” (verses 4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31).

Friends and others looking at you may say, you are ugly, you are foolish, or anything else, but looking at the inward beauty God says, you are good.  Every day Spirit of God does certain works in our life and say it is good.  We should allow the Spirit of God to work every moment in us and also sit at His presence every morning and evening so that God may give his testimony.  Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused (1 Tim.4:4).  God hath made everything beautiful in his time (Eccl.3:11).  What all God created are useful for many, in this world and for the world to come.  

In order God to create good things in our life we should humble ourselves and say like Abraham, I am dust and ashes.  David says I am dead dog.  St. Paul says, I am chief among all sinners (1 Tim. 1:15).  We should confess our true state to God.  Then God will work wonderful things in our life and at last He will say you are very good.  Enoch walked with God for 300 years daily and God found him very good.  We should obtain such a testimony from God (Heb.11:5).

God wants to sanctify our whole body, soul and spirit by His blood, word and Spirit.  He wants to remove all the darkness from our life and enlighten us.  He wants to transform us like unto Himself.  On the sixth day at last He created man in His own image and likeness (Gen.1:26).  Finally God says, it is very good, i.e. good square, which means your present life as well as eternal life is good; your physical life and spiritual life is good.  Your personal life as well as your ministry is good.

Don’t worry about things occurred in the past.  Past is past, it was Satan’s.  God wink at those things (Acts 17:30,31).  Present is yours and future is God’s.  God is taking care about your future (Mat.6:34).  Your past is defeat and failures and discouragement, but how you are now?  You alone know your present state.  You alone can submit your life to God who takes your future.  In past we were dark (Eph.5:8), in past we were formless; in past we were in horrible pit and miry clay.  But your future is very good.  For that we should work out our salvation with fear and tremble.  Don’t be lazy.  God says, is there anything too hard for Me?  God who created the ends of the earth neither faint nor get weary.  There is no searching of his understanding (Isa.40:28).

When you accept Jesus Christ as your personal saviour, God says you are good, but people around says, you are mad or foolish.  When you obey to the waters of baptism, when you received baptism of the Holy Spirit, when you stand for the truth of divine healing, when you live a life of separation, when you live a faith life, when you talk about the salvation of Jesus, God says you are good, but people around you says you are fool and many more things.  Satan also will bring all the past failures and evil deeds before you and say your state is like this, why you do so?  You therefore enjoy the world which is now kept before you.  Satan blinds our eyes of understanding lest we see the glorious gospel of Christ (2 Cor.4:4).  Even you yourself may say that I am not good.  But your soul is precious and its value is more than the value of the whole world.  God knows its value and would like to preserve it for Him.  That is why you are very good in His sight.  He makes all the crooked state of your life straight.  With a great purpose God is doing a wonderful work in each and every one of us and once the work is completed, He will say you are very good.