What We Have Forgotten

More and more I find myself being drawn to the first chapter of Genesis and more specifically to the  31st verse of that first chapter.  The 31st verse comes at what the Word describes as the conclusion of the sixth day of creation which might also be understood in a sense as the completion of the creation.  Completion is not the precise word to use in that the creation of the creation is not a static event once done and forever completed, but something which is constantly happening and unfolding all around us.  Nonetheless, in the context of the Biblical record of the beginning of all things, the 31st verse is a word of being done and a word of completion.   

All of this is what makes this 31st verse so noteworthy for us.  After the creative act of creation is done and just before God enters into the rest of the seventh day, there comes this Word which says, "God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good."  As we read this word, "it was very good," we do so remembering that in six prior verses the Scripture reads at the conclusion of a creative act, "And God saw that it was good."  Only when it is all done, do we read this word which declares what God has done to be not just good, but very good.   

Does not this word of beginning speak something important to us?  Does it not speak a word we often appear to have forgotten?   Is it true that we have forgotten that we come from God?  As surely as we came from our mother's womb, so have we been begotten by God as His sons and daughters?  Is it not also true that it is not just what we have done that brings sin into our life, but what we have forgotten?