Genesis 1:3-5
Light. It has always been associated with God. The first thing that God makes for this planet, for this universe, is light. Did God at this time create the laws and physics that make up light at this time in history? Did He create prisms of light and rainbows, or simply bring it to this world to shine on it and help create our times of work and rest?
We don’t operate like that – not everyone. Some have to work the night shift now and it is hard on them. Some are “nighthawks” and prefer to be up then. But the order of things was that night was for resting and the day for doing things. Work or play, it was while the light shone that we were active and night was the time for sleep and restoration.
But God created light – and saw that it was good. It served a purpose, it had a function. He made it distinct and separate from darkness and created the existence of “day” and “night”. Perhaps God began to spin the world on it’s axis at this time – for we know now that’s what causes day and night – but it was too difficult a concept to try to teach to people. Perhaps God had some other way of making it day and night then, for the sun was yet to be created.
I have to laugh at people that say there is no way that the Creation story could be literal. That’s a huge leap of faith! If God can do something so incredible as to create even just our planet, even just a person, who’s to say what God can or cannot do in whatever kind of timeline He chooses. I’m not trying to say “it must be literal”, I’m just saying it could be just as easily as not.
And so God’s creation continues…
