In (Genesis 1:3) we read: “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” Before God gave this command, on the first day, we know that darkness covered the earth for we read: “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” (Genesis 1:2). And since the sun, moon, and stars were not created until day four this light clearly was a supernatural light that exhibited the omnipotence of God.
God does not need the sun, moon, and stars to provide light, for God is light! (1 John 1:5) tells us: “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.” And just as God was the light for the first three days of Creation, He will also be the light in the new heavens and new earth. (Revelation 22:5) tells us that the light of the sun will no longer be needed for we read: “There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light…”
But as amazing as this cosmic light display is, there is another kind of light that exists that can shatter the darkness of sin that lives in the hearts of all of us before we come to know Jesus, the true light of the world. For we read: “When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’” (John 8:12).
And as important as the physical light of day is, Jesus, the light of the world, is even more important, since He is the only antidote for the darkness that exists in the unregenerate human heart. The Bible tells us in (Ephesians 2:1) that we are “dead in trespasses and sins,” and are unable to come out of the darkness and into the light on our own. For this to happen we need the supernatural power of the one true light – Jesus! (1 Thessalonians 5:5) tells us, once we are rescued from the darkness, by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus, we become “children of the light.”
At conversion sinners experience a kind of spiritual illumination that can also be viewed as a kind of “creation” that occurs in the human heart. Here, the light of Christ shines through our darkened hearts and performs the necessary spiritual surgery to bring us out of darkness and into the light. Without the light of Christ, we are doomed to spiritual darkness and everlasting separation from God. But praise God for Jesus – our ultimate beacon of light!