First Words

Have you ever walked into a room, held your finger on the light switch and said, 'And God said', then as you flipped the switch, 'Let there be light'?

I have always heard that a person's last words are very important and that you can learn a lot about a person from these words. I have also heard that first impressions are lasting ones.

Consider this. God is an eternal being. He always was. He, the Son and the Spirit chose to make man in there own image; but before they did they forever settled in heaven the Word of God. (Psalm 119:89)

If you read through the Bible in its traditional lay out you will start in Genesis. Our first impression of our God is His first words, 'Let there be light'.

Light mostly represents truth in the Word of God:
God is light and in him is no darkness at all.
We are called the children of light.
Men love darkness rather than light because there deeds are evil.
Ye are the light of the world.
Let your light so shine before men.
The light of the body is the eye.
Everyone that does evil hates the light lest his deeds should be reproved.
Let us put on the armor of light.
The light of the glorious Gospel...
The light of the knowledge of the glory of God...
For whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
Christ shall give thee light.
Christ said, 'I am the light of the world'.
In the New Jerusalem the Lamb is the light thereof.

The word light in Genesis 1:3 means (to be hot) and the word darkness means (twisted away).
In 1st John 1:5 the word light means (to shine or to make manifest by rays) and the word darkness means (dimness, obscurity, shadiness).

God wants to reenter the relationship he lost with us at the Garden of Eden; but in order to do that everything must be brought out into the open. God comes to us hiding nothing. He says, 'What you see is what you get'. We, on the other hand, try like Adam and Eve to hide from God what we really are. If we want a relationship with God we have to sit in the hot seat and have the rays of truth shine on us. This exposes our deeds and the thoughts and intents of our heart. There can be no shadiness or obscurity in our dealings with him.

God comes to us with the strong position of entering relationships with honesty and openness; and He expects the same from us.

When we try to hide things from God he says that we are in darkness. We are actually twisted away from the light. We are running from the truth; and that truth is what makes us free from the law of sin and death. Truth is the light we need to see our error so we may correct it and have restored fellowship with God.

Christ is the light of the world. His gospel is our light to find salvation. Truth, knowledge of God and God's Word are our lights to keep us from stumbling spiritually. Keeping ourselves in the scriptures is our armor of light to keep us from the works of darkness.

God wants us to live a life that need no shadows for hiding what we are. His reputation is wide open for inspection. In him is no shadow of turning. When you read God's Word you will find that God is brutally honest. Look at what he records about his favorite men; pretty tough stuff.

Question! Do we enter our conversations with truth? Are we honest with our spouse? Are there things in our lives that we need to hide from our children? Do we deceive our parents? Are our business dealings above board? Do we lie to our friends and coworkers? If honesty and openness is not the policy then we are destroying our relationships.

Let's reclaim these relationships. Let's walk in the light as He is in the light so that we can have fellowship one with another.

It was nice chatting with you,
John