Genesis 1:3. “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”
The Great Originator does the unfathomable: He creates reality by His Word. “He spoke, and it was done.” No wonder the Almighty cannot lie. His word fulfills itself, and the first effect is illumination.
Have you ever tried to work in the dark? Nowadays in most cases we can simply flip a switch to remedy that, but sometimes we must go looking for a flashlight or lantern. But God doesn’t need lanterns or flashlights or lightbulbs or even the sun to produce light. He created light on day one, but he didn’t make the sun, moon and stars until the fourth day! What to our small minds may seem an irreconcilable incongruence in the Biblical record, is in reality proof of the sovereign power of the Almighty. He is not dependent on any of his own works. He doesn’t need the sun moon or stars to give him light, for “the light dwelleth with him” (Daniel 2:22). “God is light; and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).
Before doing anything else, God turned on the light. In making the light first it is as if He is saying, “I’m here. Yes, it’s me, the Creator. I am the One who makes everything from nothing, I depend on nothing and on no one else.”
Could God have chosen to work in the dark until day four? No doubt. But God was not doing something secret off in a dark corner. Not at all. When he started creation by making the light, I bet it called the attention of the whole universe.
“Hey! Look over there! In that far-flung arm of the Milky Way Galaxy! See? God is at it again! He is making more cool stuff!”
Have you ever tried to work in the dark? Nowadays in most cases we can simply flip a switch to remedy that, but sometimes we must go looking for a flashlight or lantern. But God doesn’t need lanterns or flashlights or lightbulbs or even the sun to produce light. He created light on day one, but he didn’t make the sun, moon and stars until the fourth day! What to our small minds may seem an irreconcilable incongruence in the Biblical record, is in reality proof of the sovereign power of the Almighty. He is not dependent on any of his own works. He doesn’t need the sun moon or stars to give him light, for “the light dwelleth with him” (Daniel 2:22). “God is light; and in Him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).
Before doing anything else, God turned on the light. In making the light first it is as if He is saying, “I’m here. Yes, it’s me, the Creator. I am the One who makes everything from nothing, I depend on nothing and on no one else.”
Could God have chosen to work in the dark until day four? No doubt. But God was not doing something secret off in a dark corner. Not at all. When he started creation by making the light, I bet it called the attention of the whole universe.
“Hey! Look over there! In that far-flung arm of the Milky Way Galaxy! See? God is at it again! He is making more cool stuff!”
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