Genesis 2
How crazy is it that God started making stuff and that He
created all these things and then He created man. There are some really wild
things inside the second chapter of Genesis. One of those aha moments happens
in verses 5 and 6. In these two very cool verses we learn that God did not use
rain to water the earth. This is critical knowledge when we get to Noah and
that whole mess. Here we learn that God had a watering system that was a mist
that arose from the ground. Just super cool evidence that God made science
without us getting overly worked up about the whole science vs creation thing.
Let’s just be clear that God understood the nuances of evaporation and
humidification. He was super into hydroponics. It’s pretty clear that He knew
how to grow a thing or two.
That’s an interesting side note but nothing so shocking as
the description of how He made Adam. Man was formed from dust and then God
breathes life into the dust and then wait for it because this is more shocking
than fish suddenly walking and alien DNA and monkeys starting to act all people
like. The truth is so much more shocking and cool. The dirt stands up and
starts being a person. That just freaks me out, makes me think crazy thoughts,
makes me laugh and shout in joy. God does crazy stuff and that is how I know He
is real. He breathes on dirt and it stands up and starts talking and walking
and doing stuff. (Kinda ironic like that the dirt is getting ready to sin in the
next chapter)
Crazy thing next: God brings all the stuff He made and shows
all the stuff to Adam, the dirt guy. He brings the stuff, all the coolest first things that
ever were. These are things that were not at one moment and then were. And He
takes the cool stuff over to the dirt guy and actually lets the dirt guy name
everything. What are you doing God? The dirt guy gets to name everything that
you made. And that is intense because right there we know the absolute truth
about our God. He does every single thing. He for real does it all and then
lets the dirt guy give names as if the dirt guy had something to do with the
creating of stuff.
This God actually looks at Adam, looks at us and says look
at all our cool stuff. He is so crazy like that. He not only shares His toys he
actually makes them our toys. He actually treats us as if we were involved in
the whole toy making process. God says look at what we have done. And He just
never stops saying it. “Look at what we did, dirt guy.” All the while knowing
that dirt guy is about to get way off track in just one more chapter. I can
just picture Him with His arm around the dirt guy. Just smiling as Adam is
naming stuff. Just smiling knowing what happens next. God all outside of time,
living in the moment, knowing He has a plan for the next moment where the dirt
guy acts like a dirt guy. That’s to be expected from a dirt guy, even if God
breathed on Him and let Him name all the stuff. Dirt just does what dirt does.
