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📖 Verse Of The Day

— Psalm 139:13

🧠 Devotional

God created for six days.

Then, on the seventh day, He rested.

Genesis 2:2 says, “By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.”

So God was finished with that work of creation. Genesis couldn’t be much clearer about that.

But here’s the question: Was the seventh day the last time God would ever create anything?

Keep reading the Bible, and the answer is no.

Start with us.

God created Adam and Eve in Genesis and told mankind to “be fruitful and increase in number” (Genesis 1:28). But generations later, David still describes God as personally involved in forming him:

“You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb” (Psalm 139:13).

That doesn’t mean every human being was physically created back on day six. Human life continues through the biological process God designed. But Scripture still describes God as personally involved in forming each life.

Then the Bible uses creation language for something completely different.

After David sins, he prays, “Create in me a pure heart, O God” (Psalm 51:10).

Centuries later, Paul writes, “If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come” (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Paul even uses that language again in Ephesians 2:10: “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works.”

So the seventh day wasn’t the last time Scripture would describe God creating. We see God forming human life, creating a clean heart, and making people new in Christ.

And we know God isn’t done yet because He has specifically told us there is more to come.

Isaiah 65:17 says, “See, I will create new heavens and a new earth.”

Notice how closely that connects to the beginning of the Bible.

Genesis 1:1: God “created the heavens and the earth.”

Isaiah 65:17: God says He will “create new heavens and a new earth.”

Then Revelation shows us where the story is heading. John says, “I saw a new heaven and a new earth” (Revelation 21:1). A few verses later, God says, “I am making everything new!” (Revelation 21:5).

Even our bodies aren’t finished. First Corinthians 15 says they will one day be raised imperishable.

So go back to the seventh day.

Was God’s work finished?

Yes. That work was.

Was God finished creating forever?

No.

Scripture continues to describe Him forming life and making people new. And God Himself has already promised future creation: new heavens and a new earth.

God wasn’t done creating after the seventh day.

And according to Scripture, He isn’t done creating yet.