How Your New Creation in Christ Parallels the 7 Days of Creation

Day One
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
First God created your flesh. Heavens and earth picture physical life heavens=mind & earth=flesh. Your life is unfolded by God.

The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
Your life is an empty nothing (formless & void). Gloom & shame (darkness) is over the surface of your heart. Your heart is deep because God has made you to be wonderfully filled with His love. The Spirit of God moves over the surface of your heart.

Strangely Genesis doesn't give an account of God creating darkness. Isaiah 45:7 confirms He did create literal darkness. I believe the reason why this is missing is because God intended the story of creation in Genesis 1 to parallel our new creation in Jesus. God did not create the darkness in us, He did not give sin, gloom, & shame to our bodies & spirit. I believe this is also why God directly calling or seeing darkness as good, as He did with light and the many other things, is absent. Darkness represent sin & shame in Genesis 1 & those are not good.

Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
Let there be light means you have to let The Light transform you by trusting Him. If you do then light is created in you, you are joined with Christ who is The Light (John 8:12),. The heavens were made before light came, Isaiah 42:5,12 says God stretched out the heavens. The heavens represent your mind. He stretched out your mind so you could trust in His truth & become light.

God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
God judges you as good because of the light you are created as. He separates the light from the darkness. You are separated from darkness (sin). You are now in the light as He is in the light (1 John 1:7). Notice light existed before light was separated from darkness. It is because of God's work on the cross that light is separated from darkness. It is a work He had to do. The only way for God to separate your spirit from your sinful flesh was to condemn sin in His flesh & give you a new spirit. Your flesh is separated from your identity, light is now your identity. "You were formerly darkness (sinful flesh), but now you are Light in the Lord (spirit); walk as children of Light" (Ephesians 5:8). We are called "children of light," our rebirth comes from light (God).

God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. 
The darkness/night is your flesh. The day/light is your spirit. Your flesh was there before your spirit of light just as darkness was there first before God gave you light.

And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
Strangely the Hebrew in Genesis calls this "one day" instead of "the first day" & is in contrast to the words meaning second, third, etc. used later in the chapter. Much debate has gone on because of this. However reading this text from the "you are a new creation in Christ" perspective gives incredible meaning. Day plural is "days" which refers to life. Day represents life. One day means "one life." You are One Life with God! "Jesus Christ is your life" (Colossians 3:4). You are one Spirit with God (1 Corinthians 6:17).

In your beginning God created your body & mind, your flesh. Your flesh was as nothing, with gloom & shame covering your deep yet empty heart. The Spirit of God was moving over the surface of your heart Then He said, "Let there be light; and there was light." God saw you as good; and separated your spirit of light from the darkness of your flesh. He called you spirit & life and the flesh He called sinful & dead. First there came darkness and then came the breaking forth of light. You are One Life with God.

Second Day
Then God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Then God said, "Let there be a renewed mind in the midst of your heart & let it separate the fleshly heart from the spiritual heart." God made the renewed mind, and separated the fleshly heart which was below the renewed mind from the spiritual heart which was above the renewed mind; and it was so. God called the renewed mind the unveiled mind of Christ. First there was ignorance and then came enlightenment. A second life.

"Second life" & the ones that follow picture the abundant life of Christ. You are receiving renewing life from Him over & over again. You could call this process being "layered with life."

Waters also have the meaning of something short-lived. While we live on earth the depths of our fleshly hearts need to be filled. Our spirit is already filled with whatever we need. Once we pass out of this body into the full reality of the spirit we won't have to renew our minds because our minds of flesh will be gone & we will enjoy the fullness of the spirit.

Third Day
Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.
Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so.
The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a third day.

Then God said, "Let the heart below the flesh be gathered into one place, and let the clean flesh appear"; and it was so. God called the clean flesh body parts offered to righteousness, and the gathering of the fleshly heart He called body parts offered to sin; and God saw that the separation was good.

Then God said, "Let the body parts offered to righteousness produce fresh rest, healing coupled with truth, and fruitful love uniquely suited for each person with the truth of Christ in it"; and it was so.

The body parts offered to righteousness brought fresh rest, uniquely suited healing coupled with truth, and fruitful love uniquely suited for each person with the truth of Christ in it; and God saw that it was good. First there was dormancy and then love sprang out, a third life.

God said "it was good" twice on the third day. Why? Because this is the day when the new man begins impacting others. Clean flesh is one that lets love manifest through it. On this day God begins producing fruit, which is love that flows out of the abundance. Fruit (love) is only produced when a tree (person) draws more than it needs to survive. Also note that a tree never eats its own fruit, the fruit is for someone else. God loves blessing others through you, it is a double blessing for Him & a double blessing for you! The third day to the Jews is known as the "day of double blessing." Most Jewish weddings take place on Tuesday (third day) including the wedding Jesus went to (John 2:1,3).

The fleshly heart is the same spoken of on day 2. The waters/seas here picture the unhealthy emotions & actions produced by the fleshly heart. Revelation 21:1 says there are "no more seas" immediately after the judgment day. At that point fleshly hearts no longer exists. Vegetation is the same word used in Psalm 23 of "green pastures" thus it pictures rest.

With this parallel we can see why God "separated" things in creation because that is what He does in our walk in our new creation. First & foremost our identity is separated from the flesh. Second our minds & hearts (mindsets, beliefs) are separated from the flesh. Third our hearts (emotions, actions) are further separated from the flesh as well as our physical body parts which housed lusts & undisciplined behaviors.

Fourth Day
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so.
God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also.
God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

Then God said, "Let there be enlightenment in the mind of the flesh to separate the spirit of life from the flesh, and let the enlightenment be for guiding others and as a reminder of life & eternal life; and let the enlightenment be for showing others Christ, to renew the minds of their flesh & give them enlightenment"; and it was so.

God gave two great enlightenments, the greater to control the life flowing from the spirit, and the lesser to control the deeds of the flesh; He also gave multitudes of enlightenment placed in the mind of the flesh to give enlightenment to the flesh, and to control the spirit and the flesh, and to separate consciousness of the spirit from sin consciousness; and God saw that it was good. First there was shadowiness and then light prevailed over it, a fourth life.

Fifth Day
Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.” God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

Then God said, “Let the depths of your heart bring forth abundant swarms of life to others, and let peace fly to others who are open in the mind of their flesh." God created great love in your heart for life giving and heart moving. The depths of your heart swarm with uniquely suited love for each person, and uniquely suited wings of peace for each person; and God saw that it was good. God blessed the love & life inside of you, saying "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the depths of others hearts, and let peace multiply to all flesh.” First there was emptiness now there is abundant love, a fifth life.

Sixth Day Part 1
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

Then God said, "Let your flesh release life & love uniquely suited for others:  silent love, moving love, and energetic love uniquely suited for whoever would accept it"; and it was so. God made energetic love, silent love, and all kinds of love that can move a human being, uniquely suited for whoever would accept it; and God saw that it was good.

"Let your flesh release" means let your mind, which is made of flesh, release, allow, or bring forth goodness from your spirit. Actions & emotions manifest through your flesh.

Sixth Day Part 2
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so. God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Then God said, “We have made new men in Our image, according to Our likeness; they possess & can command the life in their hearts and the peace of their flesh, and the silent love, and the love that moves mankind."

God created new men in His own image, in the image of God He created them; separate but equal He created them. "Abound with love towards others, displace the flesh & control it. Command the abundant life in your hearts, command peace for your flesh, command all the life you have in your spirit to move hearts of flesh."

Then God said, “Look, I have given you all healing sown by truth for your hearts & flesh, and every bit of fruitful love which brings forth friendship & truth. Truth, healing, and friendship are your food. To all energetic love, all peace in the flesh, all moving love, to all things that have & give life, I have given every bit of naturally progressing healing to feed, sustain, & grow them”; and it was so. God saw all that He had made, and look at it, it was very good. And there was abundance and there was overabundance, the sixth life.

Here is meaning I received from the pictograph for the words 'green plant.' "I hand you who were once poor the ability to gather light through love. You know me & eat with me in my family."

Day Seven
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

The mind & the flesh came to an end, and all the things around them. By the seventh day God completed His work of making all things new, and He rested with His new creation on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it eternally holy, because in it He rested with His holy & completed children who He had created and made.

Evening has the meaning of "obscuration" & "mixture." In evening the flesh obscures the spirit & they outwardly seem mixed but by the morning, which has the meaning of "becoming distinguishable," the separation of the spirit from the flesh is more outwardly obvious than it was at the beginning of the day. On the seventh day there is no "evening & morning." The sixth day ends with a spiritual man with sanctified flesh but the seventh day is eternal glorification, a rest from the new creation because creation is complete. The spiritual creation, you becoming part of God's light, was complete on day one, but the mind/heart/flesh renewal is not complete until the body passes away. You are put to rest in peace as your consciousness now solely exists in the spirit & your spirit rests without the burden of the flesh. That is the seventh day.

A Note:
Below all 7 days are combined. The symbolism I used to translate not only comes from truth found in the New Testament about our new creation but I researched the symbolic meanings of words, root meanings of words, & even meanings culled from the Ancient Hebrew pictographs for the words. So writing this was not a matter of me plugging in what I thought sounded pretty but meanings hidden in the text itself, truth culled from the New Testament & the experience of living my life as a new creation in Christ regarding how He changes me. So please trust that my writing here is more than a poet in love with God, the depths and beauty of what is said is actually buried in the text.

The Seven Days of Your New Creation in Jesus

In your beginning God created your body & mind, your flesh. Your flesh was as nothing, with gloom & shame covering your deep yet empty heart. The Spirit of God was moving over the surface of your heart Then He said, "Let there be light; and there was light." God saw you as good; and separated your spirit of light from the darkness of your flesh. He called you spirit & life and the flesh He called sinful & dead. First there came darkness and then came the breaking forth of light. You are One Life with God.

Then God said, "Let there be a renewed mind in the midst of your heart & let it separate the fleshly heart from the spiritual heart." God made the renewed mind, and separated the fleshly heart which was below the renewed mind from the spiritual heart which was above the renewed mind; and it was so. God called the renewed mind the unveiled mind of Christ. First there was ignorance and then came enlightenment. A second life.

Then God said, "Let the heart below the flesh be gathered into one place, and let the clean flesh appear"; and it was so. God called the clean flesh body parts offered to righteousness, and the gathering of the fleshly heart He called body parts offered to sin; and God saw that the separation was good.

Then God said, "Let the body parts offered to righteousness produce fresh rest, healing coupled with truth, and fruitful love uniquely suited for each person with the truth of Christ in it"; and it was so.

The body parts offered to righteousness brought fresh rest, uniquely suited healing coupled with truth, and fruitful love uniquely suited for each person with the truth of Christ in it; and God saw that it was good. First there was dormancy and then love sprang out, a third life.

Then God said, "Let there be enlightenment in the mind of the flesh to separate the spirit of life from the flesh, and let the enlightenment be for guiding others and as a reminder of life & eternal life; and let the enlightenment be for showing others Christ, to renew the minds of their flesh & give them enlightenment"; and it was so.

God gave two great enlightenments, the greater to control the life flowing from the spirit, and the lesser to control the deeds of the flesh; He also gave multitudes of enlightenment placed in the mind of the flesh to give enlightenment to the flesh, and to control the spirit and the flesh, and to separate consciousness of the spirit from sin consciousness; and God saw that it was good. First there was shadowiness and then light prevailed over it, a fourth life.

Then God said, “Let the depths of your heart bring forth abundant swarms of life to others, and let peace fly to others who are open in the mind of their flesh." God created great love in your heart for life giving and heart moving. The depths of your heart swarm with uniquely suited love for each person, and uniquely suited wings of peace for each person; and God saw that it was good. God blessed the love & life inside of you, saying "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the depths of others hearts, and let peace multiply to all flesh.” First there was emptiness now there is abundant love, a fifth life.

Then God said, "Let your flesh release life & love uniquely suited for others:  silent love, moving love, and energetic love uniquely suited for whoever would accept it"; and it was so. God made energetic love, silent love, and all kinds of love that can move a human being, uniquely suited for whoever would accept it; and God saw that it was good.

Then God said, “We have made new men in Our image, according to Our likeness; they possess & can command the life in their hearts and the peace of their flesh, and the silent love, and the love that moves mankind."

God created new men in His own image, in the image of God He created them; separate but equal He created them. "Abound with love towards others, displace the flesh & control it. Command the abundant life in your hearts, command peace for your flesh, command all the life you have in your spirit to move hearts of flesh."

Then God said, “Look, I have given you all healing sown by truth for your hearts & flesh, and every bit of fruitful love which brings forth friendship & truth. Truth, healing, and friendship are your food. To all energetic love, all peace in the flesh, all moving love, to all things that have & give life, I have given every bit of naturally progressing healing to feed, sustain, & grow them”; and it was so. God saw all that He had made, and look at it, it was very good. And there was abundance and there was overabundance, the sixth life.

The mind & the flesh came to an end, and all the things around them. By the seventh day God completed His work of making all things new, and He rested with His new creation on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it eternally holy, because in it He rested with His holy & completed children who He had created and made.