Genesis 1:9 English Standard Version (ESV) And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

There comes a time when we look at God’s creative Word and in those Words is the power to make things happen.

Exodus 34:10 English Standard Version (ESV) And he said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.

Then the Lord made a covenant by giving His Word. While that covenant had power to do marvelous things it also had constraints. The covenant did not have the power to go beyond the constraints to which God had placed boundaries according to His will.

There is no doubt that we have witnessed the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Psalm 27:13 King James Version (KJV) I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Fainting is akin to failure, to fall down, to close ones eye as if asleep. Failure to see the goodness of the Lord is directly linked to belief, faith in the Lord. It is this faith that gives us eyes and ears to recognize the goodness of the Lord.

The world screams at us that our God has failed us and nothing could be further from the truth.

God is keeping covenant and in that covenant there are restrictions that God Himself will not violate because He is God and keeps His Word. Our failure to recognize that only gives some measure of credence to the lies the world is telling us.

Genesis 1:9 (in part) God Said and it was so.