God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning-the sixth day.

The earth is good, beautiful, yet now fallen. How do you view the earth? Many times we portray the world around us as evil, yet the creation’s original intent was good. So good that it still can reveal to us God’s eternal power and divine nature. Don’t avoid the world around you, for God created it, but don’t make the creation the end in itself, for God has sent the gospel to help us see the creation in its proper place – good, beautiful, yet fallen.