“Birds Fly”
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over
the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be
light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he
separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the
darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning —the
first day.
And God said, “Let there be a
vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made
the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And
it was so. God called the
vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning —the second day.
And God said, “Let the water
under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was
so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he
called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let the land
produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit
with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The
land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and
trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that
it was good. And there was evening, and there was
morning —the third day.
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.” And it
was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and
the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God
set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern
the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it
was good. And there
was evening, and there was morning —the fourth day.
And God said, “Let the water teem
with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of
the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and
every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according
to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that
it was good. God blessed them and said, “Be
fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the
birds increase on the earth.” And there was evening, and there was
morning —the fifth day.
Genesis 1:1-23
God creates everything. In the story of creation, God
creates birds and makes them to fly. Millions of years later we try to
duplicate some of the things God made. Man created airplanes, but only after
someone wanted to fly like a bird. Whatever we do, God has been there before,
mightier and grander than we could ever hope to imagine.
The design of creation points to
the Master Designer.
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