Genesis 1:1-2 God created the Heavens and the Earth -- all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded above the watery abyss.
We've all read and heard the first verse of the Bible hundreds of times. But do you ever just stop and contemplate the vastness of what it led to? Reread the first Chapter of Genesis every so often. On occasion, I look around me and really appreciate the beautiful scenery, whether that be the mountains or a city, but often times I am too busy to even notice.
God was blessing us abundantly before we were even created as human kind. He created the nature that surrounds us everyday: light, dark, sky, water, land, plants, sun, moon, wildlife, and us. The Google Dictionary defines nature as "the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations." What blares obviously wrong (in my opinion) about this definition is that we as humans are also part of that nature, because God created us. And I appreciate the use of the word phenomena here, because while we may not understand the vastness of nature itself, we as Christians have an answer on where it came from: God. A phenomenon is generally an occurrence that has a questionable cause.
Not only did God just create all of the nature around us, but he granted humans with the freedom to enjoy the nature and use it to our benefit, in order to live and prosper.
