The Light!
Genesis 1:3
Would it be waxing too poetical to observe that the way that God works on creation in this passage typifies the way in which He has always and will always work? He is limited by nothing, needs nothing and always produces perfection that is unrelated to the quality or prominence of the "make-up" of the thing He is creating.
I don't think that we have a good handle on the power of God. Oh, we understand the concept of power rightly enough, but when we think of that power exercised by an Omnipotent God, somehow our understanding falls short, and rightly so!
There is nothing more profoundly different that light and darkness. They are the very antithesis of each other. Taken at their absolutes, the very presence of one implies the absence of the other. If there is darkness, then there can be no light. If there is even a bit of light, then the darkness is no longer what it was.
You and I have no capacity to alter the concepts of dark and light. Certainly, we have inventions and gadgets that spew beams of light around, but by ourselves, we have no capacity to affect the darkness and shed light on our situation or circumstance. Our eyes don't glow, we don't have reflective skins or hair, and we don't generate an electrical; impulse as some creatures do. Neither are we particularly suited to the darkness. Our eyes don't adapt well or quickly to the absence of light. We cannot sight by heat and we are not sensitive to smells or movement or sound as many animals are. All in all, we are fairly poorly suited for the darkness that covers our world half of the time.
Darkness is a fearsome thing. for many, there are childhood memories of the terror that comes in the dark to be dispelled only by an inrushing parent and the flick of a light switch. For many people, nothing is more fearsome that the prospect of losing their sight, and being plunged into darkness forever forfeiting the pleasures that light brings.
Light shows us colors and shapes. It's many forms entertain, help educate us and keep us secure. It allows us to easily recognize and communicate with each other. It is rapidly, by the use of fiber optics, becoming a backbone of our communications network. Light, in the form of lasers, a making great strides in medical treatment of various ills and afflictions possible when there was no hope before.
Yes, light is a marvelous and wondrous thing. We don't even really understand what it even is yet. Some think of it as rays, some as particles, some as even more mysterious things. the speed of light is the benchmark for our concept of time. The most accurate clock in the world counts time by bouncing a laser beam off of a mirror placed on the moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts many years ago. the speed of light is said to be the absolute speed limit in the known universe, Star Trek and other SciFi concepts aside.
Man can create painting and sculptures that depict, in intricate patterns and designs, things that are lovely and pleasing to the eye. Yet, really, even the painter and sculptor are not creating, but merely depicting that which the light has revealed to them.
My point in all of this is what a grand and glorious thing God created that first day when He said "Let there be Light!" It was an act of creation far and away beyond our eventual human powers. It was an act that only One such as He could accomplish. And yet, this is not the extent of the deed! He did it by merely speaking, commanding it to be so! What human artist can create a painting by talking to the canvas? Certainly, we serve a great and glorious God Whose power is greater than any other power in this universe!
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