It was a very dark place: “the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep…”
On some rare occasion you’ve probably experienced total darkness. Like deep in Mammoth Cave when they turn out all the lights. Not a stitch of light! Not even a hint! From anywhere! You can put your hand a half inch in front of your face and you can’t see it to save your life!
Then God said, “Let there be light.” And there was light!
Isn’t light an amazing thing? It’s beautiful just by itself, but it opens to us a magnificent world of splendor and majesty!
The Apostle Paul takes us back to God’s first “Let there be light” to tell us about the ultimate “Let there be light.” The light God gave to a dark universe was merely a harbinger of the light God gives a dark heart at redemption. What an astounding act of creation that is!
“For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Cor. 4:6).
Thank You, Father, for speaking light into existence. Twice! Once for our natural eyes at creation, and again when You delivered us from the domain of darkness by the Light of the World to give us the Light of life.* Finally we can really see!
*Gen 1:3; Col 1:16; Jn 8:12