Written by Elliyah Davis

It’s the first thing God is recorded to have spoken. And with the power of the tongue of Almighty God, it is so. Suddenly, the darkness on the face of the deep is no more, and the waters for the first time reflect God’s image back to Him. Beautiful, raw, unfiltered light that radiates from the face of God and pierces every corner of every soon-to-be galaxy and wakes the nothingness to praise Him. God sees this and pronounces the light good.

God separates the light from the nothing with the deep waters in between. He gives the light another name, Daytime, and the lack of it, Nighttime. As the waters churn and turn about, the nighttime and the daytime together are the first full day.

1 John 1:5 says, God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. Therefore light is one of God’s key attributes. He never created light; He let it exist outside of Himself. (Like the difference between a glow stick and a flashlight.)  He poured Himself out on the first day of Creation with the intent that we could see His goodness: so that the first thing He does is a reflection of what He would do for us later on the cross. 

On the cross, the Light of the world takes on the darkness thereof, and for three hours, the entire universe goes dark, mourning the forsaken Christ, the Creator being killed by His creation. When His work is finished of taking on every sin, the light returns, and He commits His spirit to His Father and dies.

My eyes are weak and tear up in bright light. It is sometimes funny (and a little awkward) because people who don’t know this will ask me what’s wrong and I have to tell them that I’m perfectly fine except for the light. Oh, how I long for Heaven, where I can look upon the Lamb which lights up the whole of Heaven and He wipes away the last of my tears and I will truly see Him in His beauty, no squinting or tears necessary. 

But we all, with open face beholding as through a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. For now we see as through a glass, darkly, but then face to face: now we know in part, but then shall we know even as we are known. 

Finish, then, Thy new creation:

Pure and spotless let us be.

Let us see Thy great Salvation

Perfectly restored in Thee.

Changed from glory into glory,

Till in Heaven we [see Thy face],

Till we cast our crowns before Thee,

Lost in wonder, love, and praise!

Charles Wesley

I’ll see you along the Way!