Did you ever wonder what the universe must have been like before God spoke the first words of creation?
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness." -Genesis 1:1-4 NKJV
I have.
I try to wrap my mind around a substance that isn't light, yet isn't darkness, yet it is. And there was the unformed earth just floating in the midst of it. Void of all life. A giant water blob floating in this... universe. No stars. No moon. No sun. No planets. No anything.
And God speaks.
And the first thing he does is create light.
Light.
And he separates light from darkness. He says that the light is 'good'. But makes no mention of the darkness. He doesn't call it good. He doesn't call it bad. But He separates it from what He deems as good.
It just brings a picture to my mind of Christ.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it." John 1:1-5 NKJV
In the midst of the incomprehensible emptiness. There was a light that shines in the darkness after God speaks the first words of creation.
And in the midst of our incomprehensible darkness and blindness of sin. There was a light that shines in on us... the Word of God in the form of a man: Jesus Christ.
"The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:9-14
I love that God describes himself as light.
This week think about how God has shone in on humanity's darkness... Instead of wondering why the dark is so dark... wonder why we don't mirror, why we don't reflect God's light to all the ends of the Earth.
Even more... it's incredibly humbling when we think about how God has shone in on our own personal lives... our personal darkness.
For us it's as easy as lighting a candle or flipping a switch to light up a room so we can see physically.
But God came down and had to die in order for us to see spiritually.
This week think about God as light. The light of the world.
