11/08/2026
I had the privilege of reading the story of creation again, and a few things stood out to me.
As a course creator, I couldn't help but see some lessons in the way God created.
1. God created in order.
He didn't create man before He created light.
He didn't create plants before He prepared the earth for them.
He didn't create the fish before creating the waters they would live in.
There was an order to creation.
One thing prepared the way for another.
Creation wasn't random.
It was strategic.
And that made me think about how we create.
Sometimes we want to jump straight to the “big thing.”
We want the course before we've understood the student.
We want the product before we've built the process.
We want the result without first creating what makes the result possible.
But God created in sequence.
What comes next depends on what came before it.
2. Darkness was a problem, but God didn't destroy it.
In the beginning, darkness was there.
And interestingly, God didn't have to eliminate darkness from existence before creation could continue.
He gave light its place.
He separated the light from the darkness.
The same thing happened with the waters and the deep.
And that made me think about problems differently.
Sometimes we think progress can only happen when every problem has disappeared.
But perhaps maturity is learning how to give things their proper place.
Not everything needs to be destroyed.
Some things simply need boundaries.
Some problems don't need to become the centre of the system.
They just need to be contained so that what needs to grow can grow.
That's a lesson in business.
That's a lesson in leadership.
And honestly, that's a lesson in life.
3. God didn't design creation to depend on constant manual intervention.
This one really got me.
God didn't have to recreate every tree every time one died.
He didn't have to come back every season and say,
“Gabriel, please go and create another iroko tree. The last one is gone.”
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He put seed within creation.
Living things had the capacity to reproduce after their own kind.
The system could continue.
And suddenly, I started thinking about course creation.
What if the goal isn't simply to create something once?
What if the goal is to create something that can keep producing the intended result?
A good course shouldn't only contain information.
It should contain a pathway.
A process.
A framework.
A way of thinking.
Something the student can take and reproduce.
Because there's a difference between creating content and creating something that creates results.
And perhaps that's one of the greatest lessons I see in creation:
God didn't just create things.
He created things with the capacity to create.
That changes how I think about what I'm building.
I don't just want to make courses.
I want to build learning systems that can outlive the moment in which I created them.
I want my students to leave with more than knowledge.
I want them to have something they can use, apply, adapt, and reproduce.
Because if I have to be present every single time the result needs to happen, perhaps I haven't built a system yet.
I've only built a dependency.
And that's the part of the creation story that really challenged me as a course creator.
Don't just create something that works.
Create something that can keep working.
