Another error Christians can fall into is acting as if all God wants for us is the “within” world, and as if the physical without is vain and pointless in God’s sight.

Yet we see here just how wonderful the world is, the beautiful creation of God. We were made for this world.

A foolish and harmful view of God is that He is all spiritual and only cares about the things of heaven and within. This sort of over-religiousness greatly discourages the people of God, and fills them with burdens beyond what God is actually giving us. It is enough to learn how to live truly holy and godly lives in this world.

So many give some lip-service to having found full satisfaction in God “within”, acting as if they have no delight in the good things of life. And many then follow their example and feel they must offer the same lip service. They aren’t honest with their own experiences and how these seem to truly contradict their own needs.

We see in the beginning a window into how life is meant to be, and a pure and beautiful physical world is a great part of this.

The issue is when we do not see the God of this creation, and do not respect Him, know Him, seek to know Him, or walk before Him rightly. Where we only regard the physical world, as if this is all there is, and do not rightly understand the spiritual world as well. How we do not see the pure and beautiful God that all the creation comes from.

(This is an excerpt from the Genesis 1 commentary.)