Unity Over Individuality

     I have recently decided to start studying the Scriptures: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. I have only finished Genesis 1 and The Lord has already revealed to me something so interesting when I finished reading about the creation of man and woman in God's image. I've come across something that can change my life, and anyone else's so they wish to practice it.

     All throughout the six days of God's creating, usually at the end of the day He says that it is good. He does not say that it is good at the end of everyday, because when He says that it is good, that marks the completion of that creation. He may form the creation one day, and then a day or two later He completes it and says that it is good. That is what happens when He creates the waters on the second day, but completes them with living creatures on the fifth day. When it is complete, it is good. Look through Genesis chapter 1 with me to see:

Verse 4: God saw that the light was good...

Verse 10: ...and God saw that it (creation of seas and earth) was good.

Verse 12: ...and God saw that it (creation of vegetation on earth) was good.

Verse 18: ...and God saw that it (creation of the two luminaries to govern night and day) was good.

Verse 21: ...and God saw that it (creation of living creatures in the sea) was good.

Verse 25: ...and God saw that it (creation of living creatures on earth) was good.

But now look at this verse:

Verse 31: And God saw all that He had made, and behold it was very good.

     At the end of God's creating, everything was not good, but it was very good. Why is that so? Everything else was good, but when all was completed it was very good. This signifies something, but what is it? Through deeper studies and the reading of commentaries, I have drawn a conclusion to this slight addition of one word.

     Everything that God has made was and is good, that won't change. When God says that all that He has made was very good, that doesn't place the things He made previously made not as good, instead it changes how we should view them. All things are good in themselves, but in combination, they are very good. God's sun and moon, sea and land, man and woman were all good, but when they were all complete and in existence with one another, they were very good. Try looking at it from a modern perspective. When bad things happen, like trials, it stinks. We only see the trial and only see what is happening, and it isn't good. However, after everything plays out, whether it's in one day or one year, we see the reason behind that trial, and it is very good. You see, all things are good, whether or not we believe them to be, but when all is played out and we see the end picture of it all, it is no longer good, but very good. Pain is good, we just can't see it until it unfolds and reveals itself to be very good in the end. Trials are good, we just refuse to look deeper into them until we realize what they were there for. Trials, pain, death, failure, it's all good individually, but when combined with lessons and teachings and experiences, they combine to be very good.

     All things are good when individual; all things are very good when in combination.