Dear Readers: We have had many requests to revisit this 31-day series originally posted in January, 2017. We pray you develop a fresh hunger and thirst for God, a passion to pursue Him will be awakened, and a deeper revelation received. Our hope is that a profound awe and reverence for Him will be cultivated within you.

~ Editor, Walk His Way

 “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light.” Genesis 1:2-3

Light

Cultivating Awe and Reverence for God, Day 6

Walk his Way revisited —First posted in January, 2017

One of the best ways I know of to deepen our awe and reverence for God is to take a good, hard look at Creation. We are only vaguely aware of what went on during those six days. Some of us can recite what took place each day—but even with the Bible open in front of us, we barely perceive what God actually did when He created.

I went looking throughout the internet to get more information on what little I already knew about light before I wrote this. Unless you have studied physics, don’t waste your time—it was pretty much gobbledy-gook to me. I even went to the sites for kids, which were only slightly more helpful.

Picture it: the earth was without form, and void. “Without form, and void” means a formless, chaotic mess, a waste, a worthless thing, emptiness and desolation, of no purpose, and for nothing. There was no arrangement of anything; whatever was there was disorderly and confused. There was no beauty, only darkness—and this darkness wasn’t merely the absence of light, but was tangible and thick, as if you could cut it. But then, God began to bring order out of chaos, as He continues to do today. It is a normal process of His; it’s just what He does. That’s what creation is: making nothing into something.

Then picture the Holy Spirit of God hovering, which means He was “sweeping” or “moving”, or even “fluttering and vibrating” or “quivering”. He was not being still, watching. The Holy Spirit was active as God spoke, ready to bring to pass all that God said.

Then, God spoke: “Let there be light.” From what I learned in my internet research, it must have happened very quickly, because light moves the fastest in a void. (It slows down in water and air, or whenever it passes through anything.) That’s it—that’s all God had to do—just say the words, and it was so.

Remember, the sun was not created until the fourth day. He just made light from nothing, and there it was, not a sun, but light.

When He made light, he made real the concepts we live with every day but have no knowledge of. Light bends, refracts, reflects, and diffuses; it comes in waves of different lengths, some of which we can see, some which are seen only by certain animals, and some which nothing can see (except Him, no doubt); light does not only come from the sun but in fact God has made some of His creatures able to create their own light.

God Himself considers His act of creation as proof of His lordship. “For thus says the Lord, Who created the heavens, Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it, Who has established it, Who did not create it in vain [same word as without form and void], Who formed it to be inhabited; I am the Lord, and there is no other’” (Isaiah 45:18).

Lord, we worship You for Your wisdom and power that created all this so that we would have a place to inhabit. As You said, it is good. Amen.