day no. 15,643: very good

"Here finish'd Hee, and all that He had made view'd, and behold all was entirely good.” -- John Milton, Paradise Lost

Genesis 1:31
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

Each and every single thing that God made was and is good and the sum total of all that He made was and is very good. In that good world there was a tree whose fruit was deadly, yet it was good for that tree to exist. And not merely good, but very good. God defines goodness. We may very well ask, "How could it be good to even have a tree like that around?" because by our definition of good, God would have some explaining to do. But if we begin by assuming that God controls the definitions, then this world containing that tree is very good because He said so. There are, of course, details to be worked out in response to this fact, but the fact of it simultaneously being there and being very good cannot be questioned. It must be believed.

Hebrews 11:3

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.