We Are Planned

Genesis 1: 14-15 And God said let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times and days and years and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.

Are we an accident of the Big Bang or are we planned? In this short passage in the creation story we see God is perhaps looking ahead to day 6 when he would create mankind. Here on day 4 the indication is he is preparing his creation for us. I am not aware of any animal that looks into the night sky and marks sacred times, days, or years. So the Father must have been looking ahead to us, but why?

I believe he was providing mankind a way to return to significant moments in our story so we will remember what God has done for us. Our Father knew we would need some grounding and that is why we celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, and graduations among other things. It is also why we remember loved ones, friends, even dark nights of the soul. Today on this last day of November 2014, I still am able to remember the night of 5/13/13, because that is the night I began to call on the name of the Lord and that is the night of my rescue.

The creation story is so much deeper than arguments about literal or figurative days. Our God was preparing for our entrance and subsequent individual journey's. He knew we would leave him and so he was also preparing a way to help us to return to him. In Genesis 4:26, he says and people began to call upon the name of the Lord. The Father was going to be ready for the moment when one of his children wanted to be found and begin calling, "Daddy! Daddy!" The story of creation is incredible and comforting because we are planned. We are not an accident.