Gen 1:6-8 | KingComments | STEP | In the light that is created, the prevailing disorder or formlessness is seen. In the disorderly mass of waters of , God, by means of a separation, brings order. He speaks for the second time His commanding “let there be”. By His command, the atmosphere is created with the observation “and it was so”. As a result, there is water below the expanse and there is water above the expanse. It is striking that it does not say: “And God saw that it was good.” On the other days it says so. However, at the end of all creation days, so including this second day, it says: “God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good” ( ). This second day also has its significance in the spiritual development of someone who has been converted. When someone is converted, he gets a new nature. From that moment on he has an old and a new nature. That old nature someone only loses when the Lord comes or when he dies. Through Bible teaching, especially the letter to the Romans, the converted man learns to live according to his new nature. There he also learns what God has done with the old nature. He learns by this that there is a separation between the two natures. In the practice of faith life, this learning process can give rise to many conflicts ( ). But it is not God’s ultimate goal with the believer’s life that he continues to wrestle and worry with the old nature. This is evident from the following days.

‏ Genesis 1:6-8

The Second Day

In the light that is created, the prevailing disorder or formlessness is seen. In the disorderly mass of waters of Gen 1:2, God, by means of a separation, brings order. He speaks for the second time His commanding “let there be”. By His command, the atmosphere is created with the observation “and it was so”. As a result, there is water below the expanse and there is water above the expanse. It is striking that it does not say: “And God saw that it was good.” On the other days it says so. However, at the end of all creation days, so including this second day, it says: “God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good” (Gen 1:31a).

This second day also has its significance in the spiritual development of someone who has been converted. When someone is converted, he gets a new nature. From that moment on he has an old and a new nature. That old nature someone only loses when the Lord comes or when he dies.

Through Bible teaching, especially the letter to the Romans, the converted man learns to live according to his new nature. There he also learns what God has done with the old nature. He learns by this that there is a separation between the two natures. In the practice of faith life, this learning process can give rise to many conflicts (Rom 7:15-19 ; 24). But it is not God’s ultimate goal with the believer’s life that he continues to wrestle and worry with the old nature. This is evident from the following days.