1. Genesis 1:31 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Why is everything declared very good only after the sixth day of creation?

Genesis 1:31 (ESV)

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

God’s summary evaluation of creation concludes the six days: it was very good. His highest acclaim is withheld until the completed creation because only after the six creation days has the lifeless earth been fully changed. Now the earth, as a result of God’s Spirit and Word, is well ordered, complete and abounding in life forms under the watchful care of royal humanity.1