day no. 16,887: flooded by covenant

Genesis 1:26-28

And God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion."

When God wanted a million angels, He created a million angels; when God wanted a billion people, He created two. People are the kind of creation that can make more of its own kind and God delights in it.

God made people to make more people by covenant. Covenant was to fill the earth and subdue it. People can come together outside of covenant or come together in covenant only to fail to raise their kids according to the covenant, but God designed the world to be blessed by covenant keeping. All kids come about by covenant, some by blessing, some by curse, they are all then brought up to be either a blessing or a curse according to God’s covenant.

All that to say, there are sinful ways to conceive a child and sinful ways to raise one, but God has commanded kids to be brought forth in blessing and raised up in the blessings of Christ.

Habakkuk 2:14

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

There is no one alive or who has ever lived who is not descended from Adam. There is no one on earth who isn't related to someone who once was on Noah's boat. Everyone has DNA drowned in covenant. God continues to flood the world with the knowledge of His Son through the recreation and regeneration of His covenant people who embrace by grace through faith the promises of His Gospel.