Does it really matter? God could have done it all at once, but chose 7 days. God will work 6 days and rest on the seventh. What else can be gathered? Walls of Jericho, 6 days, mount of transfiguration, after 6 days. A day with the Lord is as 1000 years. The earth has been here about...
It's not that how well I make my home somehow measures me but rather homemaking is an opportunity to sew to the Spirit and serve God. It is the hidden person of the heart that God treasures. So if I serve in my home with a good attitude, love, and view to honor God, the temporary engagement of homemaking becomes my spiritual advantage.
Jesus spoke in a way that exposed pride and blindness. “Every one that doeth evil hateth the light… lest his deeds should be reproved” ~John 3:20. When someone resists the truth, it is not because the truth is unclear. It is because the heart does not want it.