When God revealed the record of His creating work, He did so in a concise economy of words. His work and the resulting reality each day is specified within the repeated cause-and-effect formula: “And God said . . . and it was so.”
But God interrupts His terse presentation of creation with a repeated comment about Himself. “And God saw that it was good.” It is particularly important to Him that we notice His attentiveness to goodness and the total approval and satisfaction He expresses in His completed work:”God saw all that He had made and behold, it was very good” (Gen 1:31).
Not only does everything God does correspond to the standard His character anticipates. In the more detailed report of man’s and woman’s creation that follows in Genesis 2, we see the Lord’s perfect goodness in the work He has not done yet, but that must wait to be brought forth in the context and timing its full preciousness and value requires: “It is not good for man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him” (Gen 2:18).
This is God’s way and nothing less can be God’s way in His constant, watchful care over every person He brings forth into this world. He is always taking pleasure in ensuring that the precise time and way in which He acts in our lives is worthy of His perfection’s approval.
(Spotlight 2, Lesson 9 in Doctrine 101: Learning about God)