Genesis 1:1-2
Who is this God that from all the nothingness of an infinite
space made something? He created from nothing all things and He declared them
to be good because He is good and from Him comes all that is good. And He
lacked nothing but in Him was a desire for something tangibly else from all
things He already had. And so we are told in Genesis 1:1-2, “ In the beginning, God
created the heavens and the earth. 2 The
earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” And this is
the God that already was and there was darkness over the face of the deep. And
in an instant God is a darkness exterminator.
Things become clear. God, seated
wherever He is sitting, decides that He will stop doing whatever He was up to
before He decided to start making stuff and then He sees that everything is
darkness. The Word is with Him and the Holy Spirit hovers and in an instant
they commence the project, they begin the process that has been the plan all
along. This is the removal of darkness plan that will not fail because “in Him
there is no darkness” and in His light the darkness cannot survive. Even in
that first instant of creation “God saw that the light was good. And God
separated the light from the darkness.” Can you just see the impact of the
light when God releases it upon the dark?
Oh this God who sees darkness and
subdues it, makes it His own. He sees darkness and He is so moved that He makes
light. And so it is that in the very beginning God was in the business of
making darkness into light. This is who He is. He is the ender of darkness. In
John 1 we are told, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. 2 He was
in the beginning with God. 3 All
things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was
made. 4 In him was life, and
the life was the light of men. 5 The
light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” The Hebrew
for the word we translate as overcome could actually be better stated as
comprehend. We can really read this that the darkness cannot comprehend the
light in any meaningful way. Darkness is so defeated and disoriented by the
light that it cannot possibly come up with a plan for overcoming it. This is
how amazing God’s light is. He looks down on the void that is dark and He makes
light and to this day the dark cannot find a way to overcome this new reality
is faces. To this day the dark flees the light, is utterly destroyed by it.
There will be a day when there is no darkness. Oh that that day would come
soon.
