When God creates space in your world, He does so with purpose. You are a canvas prepared for something unprecedented to take root and emerge. What breaks through the surface may be visible to everyone around you and that’s good. But the real beauty lies hidden within: the seeds. Future blessings for seasons you haven’t entered yet. Tomorrow’s miracles folded into today’s breakthrough.
“And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.! (Genesis 1 v 9-13)
The third day was a defining moment. When God brings restriction, He does so to create greater shape and purpose. This is His strategy, and it reveals what only He can see.
Who knew that beneath the covering waters, dry land waited to emerge? Only God. Who knew that within that land, vegetation was ready to burst forth? Only God.
The same is true for you. There are things still hidden within you that will only surface when God removes certain connections, when He separates the land from the sea in your life. When He severs ties to lifestyle choices or relationships that have kept your potential submerged, a new season of blessing will emerge. Like the dry ground appearing from beneath the waters, your true identity and calling often surface only when God removes what has been covering it.
The third day was a commanding moment. The land didn’t produce vegetation by its own initiative or desire, it produced because God commanded it to. The potential was always there, buried deep in the soil, waiting dormant beneath the surface. But it took a divine word to draw it out, to awaken what had been sleeping, to call forth what had been hidden.
Perhaps you feel like that dry ground today. Stuck in place, unproductive, waiting endlessly for something, anything, to emerge. God can speak to your dry ground. You don’t need more effort or strategy; you need His Word spoken into your life. The same voice that commanded forests from seed can speak to what lies dormant within you. Spring is coming to your dry ground.
The third day was a double blessing moment.
Did you spot it? God saw that it was good. Twice. While every other day (apart from the second) ends with the famous commentary that God looked around and “saw that it was good,” the third day is a little different. The third day gets two declarations that “it was good.”
The third day was a double blessing moment. Two declarations of goodness. This wasn’t lost on the Jewish people. They recognised the third day of the week as uniquely blessed, which is why weddings were often celebrated on this day. Who wouldn’t want to marry on the day of double blessing?
And a reminder for us all today: we are indeed people of the third day!
Missions Paul 