The Fourth Day of Creation-
A Picture of Living Above the World
To complete our redemption, Jesus not only had to be raised from the dead, but He also needed to enter “into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us” (Hebrews 9:24b). On the fourth day of creation, our attention is turned to the heavens, to the creation of “two great lights.” We are reminded of Christ-“The Sun of Righteousness” (Malachi 4:2)-and of God’s people, who reflect His light and give light in the darkness just as the moon reflects the light of the sun to give light at night. Just as the moon was created to “rule the night” (Genesis 1:16), God’s people are to have power over sin and authority over Satan. But we can have this authority only as we live “in the heavenly places in Christ” (Ephesians 1:3b). The Spirit says, “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth” (Colossians 3:1-2).
When the earth comes between the moon and the sun, the light from the moon is eclipsed (or blocked out); we will have no victory and no witness. “Do not love the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15). “Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God” (James 4:4b). This does not mean we should not love the ways or the thinking of the world that is against God’s ways and thoughts. Are you living “in the heavenly places”-living consciously in God’s presence moment by moment?