“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.”
The sixth day closes in Genesis 1 with God surveying everything he has made and declaring it not merely good but very good — the only time this intensified evaluation appears in the chapter. The comprehensive sweep of this declaration covers everything: light and darkness, sea and land, vegetation, stars, animals, and humanity. Before sin enters the picture in Genesis 3, the created order is evaluated by its Creator as fully, completely, beautifully good. This matters because it means the created world is not inherently evil or merely a temporary shell — it has dignity and worth in God's sight. Romans 8:21 looks forward to creation itself being liberated from its bondage to decay, affirming that the original goodness is a destination, not just a memory. For your own life today, this verse is an invitation to resist the habit of chronic dissatisfaction with what God has made — including yourself. Name one thing about your life or your physical existence today that you can receive as part of what God called very good.
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Tobias van der Berg (test user)1w agoThe seventh day approaches
After declaring everything very good at the end of the sixth day, God rests on the seventh. The Sabbath is one of the most theologically loaded institutions in Scripture, and it is rooted here in crea...
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Emre Yilmaz (test user)1w agoVery good
Not just good — very good. At the end of the sixth day, after creating humanity, God surveys everything He has made and the verdict is emphatic: it is very good. This is the original divine assessment...
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