Let There Be Light
In the beginning, it was finished
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”—Gen. 1:1-2
The Bible doesn’t leave us wondering, it comes out with the fact that God created the heaven and the earth. He is the creator, and created everything.
God starts with a formless, nothing that is dark and full of deep water. Then, His Spirit moved upon this and He 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.”—Gen 1:3-4
In the Gospel of John the first few sentences tell us.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. ,And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”—John 1:1-5
Jesus said, “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”— John 8:12
This is the first place Jesus and the Gospel message is revealed to us. We can see that God knew what He was doing before He even started creation.
Jesus was already slain from the foundation of the World (Rev. 13:8)
God prepared a way, even before the fall of Adam and Eve. He knew what would happen and was ready.
God is love and everything He created was created because of His love.
But, love cannot be forced. It must be free. So, He gave His creation free will to love Him and follow Him if they choose.
Satan and those spirits who followed him, exercised their free will and chose to reject God, and became corrupted with evil. They became full of darkness, and rebelled against God.
And a rift came, between the darkness of evil and the light of life.
And the enemy, seeking to hurt God by any means, went to the Garden of God on the Earth and tempted the man and the woman, leading to their fall, and they also became full of darkness, corruption and blind. Not comprehending the light of life. They became dead in the spirit and blind to the light.
So that all humans born into this world are born with a corrupted nature. Full of darkness. Facing death in the flesh, and death in the spirit. Blind toward God and the light of Life.
Living lives devoted to self.
Living lives of misery, in remembrance of the lost light and goodness, but finding it no where.
The corruption within leading to sin, and more corruption as the demons torment and tempt us to fail and fall. Seeking to steal from us. To kill us. and destroy us.
Doing everything they can to keep us from getting saved, and knowing God. To keep us distracted, and not serving God.
Twisting us up in lies, to keep us blind, and broken. To keep us in darkness, without any light, heaping trouble on trouble to crush any thoughts of God, and keeping us from hearing His call.
And He does call us in the darkness. His spirit hovers over the darkness and he speaks into our dead formless life if we choose to hear Him.
“Let there be light”
He tells us of Jesus and the light of life, and if we turn to Him and confess Him as Lord, He saves us and brings us out of darkness. He heals our blindness. He lifts us up from the deep dark waters and places our feet upon the Rock, which is Christ.
If we turn to Him He saves us and grows us and builds a relationship with us through His Grace and our Faith in Him.
And on Judgement day, we will be with Him; in the light of Christ.
As the Fallen Angels, Demons and all those who chose to stay in the darkness are cast into the Lake of Fire, which is the garbage dump outside the city of God. Prepared for them at Creation. (Rev. 20, Matt. 25:41)
Where the fires are not quenched and the worm dieth not. In darkness, without light. Separated from Him, forever. (Isa. 66:21-24)
But, in the Paradise of God
“There shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.”— (Rev. 22:5)
The Lord calls us to turn to His light and to know Him.
All we have to do is hear, believe and call on the name of Jesus, confessing him as Lord.. (Romans 10:9-10, 13, Acts 2:21, John 10:19)
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