“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. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.”
God is creator of the mountain, and God is creator of the goat on the mountain. He cares for, thinks of, and establishes the grandest cosmological scene as well as the seedling sprout. So it is in vv. 9-13. God establishes the Earth and Seas, and he establishes the vegetation upon the Earth. But which is grander in the scale of creation: the Earth or the plant? One is certainly larger, but does that establish grandness in the eyes of God? What of the intricacies of the plant? What of the multitudinous uniqueness of grasses and growth, of fruits and vegetables? What of “growth” itself? What of reproduction and life and color and smell and taste? God is Lord of the large and the small, the simple and the complex, of the inanimate and the animate. When humanity is born, when his dearest creation comes, God has established the strawberry and the squash, the green grass and the shady tree as gifts to be used and seen. God’s control over every detail of creation (big and small) becomes beautifully apparent on the third day, when strawberries are born.