The First Three Days of Creation (5)

God's Creation of Plant-life (Gen. 1:11-13) In one of his typically homely comments, Martin Luther observes concerning the second phase of the creative work of the third day: "On the third day, He filled our kitchens and cellars." This is undoubtedly true. But we would add to this: on the third day God acted as the divine interior decorator. He not only prepared for man, the chief inhabitant for whom all the world is designed, a well-stocked kitchen; but He who is in Himself the implication of...