May 14th, 2018

Let There Be Light

“And God said, ‘Let there be light, and there was light.”  Gen. 1:3

In Chapter 1 of Genesis we discover two kinds of light.  The first is in verse 3, where God says “let there be light” and there was.  Later in verse, 14, God said “let there be lights.”  The first light was one that was called day and distinguished itself from darkness, or night.  The latter was considered as the lights in the sky which marked seasons, days and years.  In both cases God determined that is was good.

When we look at this passage we find that after creating the heavens and earth, God saw that the earth was formless and empty.  And so He created light.  He created it by speaking it into existence.  We saw a powerful glimpse of what is to become a Biblical pattern:  the combination of the Spirit (part of the Godhead in Gen. 1:1) and the word of God.

This first light was considered by the ancients to be a “glory light” or what some might consider a supernatural light.  It is compelling that light was the first thing God created, called good and established.  Much later in history, we would read about a man named Jesus, who called Himself the “Light of the World.”  He came from God as a glory light, to separate light from darkness.  He was the Word of the God that became flesh and dwelt among men.  He instructed the disciples to let their “light shine.”

Something powerful happens when we take things of the dark and bring them into the light.