Let there be light...
Most people read Genesis 1:3, "let there be light", picture the sun turning on. But the sun wasn't created until Day 4.
So what was the light on Day 1?
John 1:1-4 tells us — "In the beginning was the Word... in him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind."
The light God spoke into existence on Day 1 wasn't solar. It was personal. It was Christ himself — the Word through whom everything was made — filling the formless darkness before a single star existed.
The sun, moon and stars in Genesis 1:14-19 were created to govern and reflect light. But the source had already been there from the first word spoken.
And here is what makes it personal — that same light doesn't just fill the universe. It fills you.
2 Peter 1:19 calls Jesus "the morning star" that rises in your heart. The same light that pierced the darkness of a formless universe on Day 1 is the same light that breaks through the darkness inside a human soul the moment Christ enters it.
Jesus didn't enter the story in Bethlehem. He was the light on the very first day. Bethlehem was just the moment that light put on skin.
"The Word became flesh and dwelt among us." — John 1:14
The darkness of Genesis 1:2 and the darkness inside every human heart have the same remedy. They always did.
When Jesus enters the room, he doesn't turn on a light.. he shuts off the dark!