God the Blesser (Genesis 1)

 God the Blesser

In Genesis 1 God creates the animals and men. On the fifth and sixth day of the creation week He made them.

His first recorded interaction with His created creatures is given here. It is not a simple command or admonishment. And far be it from Him to curse or to hurt.

His first inclination is to bless:


[Gen 1:21-22, 27-28 NKJV] 21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that [it was] good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." ... 27 So God created man in His [own] image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."


In His eyes reproduction is a gift and a blessing. It is something positive so that the earth could be filled with living creatures. He gave dominion over the earth to men in this blessing.

Thus His inclination is towards blessing.
Cursing and destroying is a strange work to Him. He does not like to do it. 

This character trait has remained.

He is still the great Blesser. That blessing of reproduction has not been retracted despite sin. Though nature has been corrupted and Satan is the god of this age, man is still in dominion over the earth.

And every single day we receive the blessings of food:


[Gen 1:29-31 NKJV] 29 And God said, "See, I have given you every herb [that] yields seed which [is] on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 "Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which [there is] life, [I have given] every green herb for food"; and it was so. 31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed [it was] very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.


These simple things of life which we so often forget tell us of a God who wishes to bless.
Sin and its consequences were not part of God’s original intent and wish. Now we sometimes even need discipline. 

But God is inherently a Blesser. He loves to do it and it was the first thing He did towards His creatures.

Why doubt this kind of character?

Is He not to trust even in these struggles of life? Can He not make even a curse a blessing?

Let us trust in this God.


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