Genesis 1:31 commentary
Ge 1:31 ¶ 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.
Verse 31: Behold now the complete work of the glorious God. He who begins, will also make an end. Let the people of God be comforted; he doth not work by halves. Hath he begun the new creation in their hearts, he will perfect the same, unto the day of his appearing.
1. We have here a solemn review of the whole. He who makes the work, knows it thoroughly. Be it ever in our mind, that these eyes of Omniscience still go to and fro through the earth, and that from them nothing is hid, nothing is secret.
2. The approbation on the review: it was very good, exactly answering the mind of the Creator; no flaw, no error, no want, no redundance: admirably suited for the service of man, and in the highest measure demonstrating the wisdom, power, grace, and glory of the hand which formed it. –Whatever God doeth, is well done. Though unbelief would often call in question the works of his providence or grace, the day is coming when we ourselves shall be convinced, that all was holy, just and good. At the end it shall speak. –How different are our works on the review from God’s! Alas! the more we reflect, and the more attentively we view them, the more we see of their evil, and are covered with the shame and confusion. Yet to be thus humbled, is mercy. When we begin to see and cease from our own works, we shall be led to him whose work is perfect, and of whom, and of us in him, God will himself declare, that he is well pleased.
3. The closing of the sixth day. God could at an instant have begun and made an end: he wanted no consultation, or correction in his work; all known to him it was from the beginning, and to him as easy to will a world, as a worm into being; but he wrought six days, to teach us to work, and rested on the seventh, enjoining by precept, as he hath taught us by example, to separate it for our day of holy rest, to be spent entire in his service, in the contemplation of his works, and ways, and in adoration, love and praise. Lord, may my every Sabbath thus be spent, till not one day, but every day, I shall come to celebrate an eternal Sabbath in thy presence in glory, and rest from all my works and labors beneath the sun, in the enjoyment of thy blessed self.
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