The First day of Creation-
A Picture of Light Shining in Darkness
What an awesome scene! The Holy Spirit of God hovering, brooding over the darkness, emptiness, restlessness, until God brings light! But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt, ‘There is no peace,’ says my God, ‘for the wicked’” (Isaiah 57:20-21). Do you feel you are walking in the dark, that you are troubled and empty? There is hope! “For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness who has shone in our hearts to give light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ’ (2 Corinthians 4:6).
God knew also how spiritually dark the world was-how much the world needed a Savior to be its light. The Holy Spirit came upon Mary and she conceived the Son of God.
“In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. But as many as received Him, to then He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name” (John 1:4, 12).
Have you received Jesus-His light and His life-so that you can be a new creation in Christ? “The wind blows where it wishes….So is everyone who is born of the Spirit” (John 3:8). “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Have you been born of His Spirit by receiving Jesus into your heart?
On the first day of the world’s creation, God separated the light from the darkness. In the same way, when He makes us new creations in Christ, God wants there to be a separation of light from darkness in our lives. Jesus was ‘holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners” (Hebrews 7:26). He loved righteousness and hated lawlessness (He brews 1:9). We, too, are to ‘have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them” (Ephesians 5:11). “Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light” (Romans 13:12b). God’s Word and His Spirit within us can show us what is right and what is wrong. Are you walking in the light-with no unconfessed sin-even as He is in the light?
“But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus.
When the light of Jesus is in our lives, we can be “blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world” (Philippians 2:15b). Jesus says, “You are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:14a). It is only “when the Holy Spirit has come upon you” that you receive power and can be a witness for Jesus, beginning where you are and even to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). Are you a light to your word?