Thursday, July 16, 2015

Light, sun, and moon

“Then God made two great lights: the great light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night… So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.” Genesis 1:16,19

This week as I read a children’s material and it was amazing because the following thought was explained at the children’s level. I had learned this in college but I am happy that children could understand how powerful God is. It’s about light, sun, and moon.

We know from the Bible that light was created on the first day, and the sun and moon on the fourth day. But we know that our light comes from the Sun. So how can this be? This is what the children’s material[1] reads: “God had a very important reason for waiting until day four to make the sun and moon and planets, or what we call the solar system… God knew that someday His human children would choose to forget about their Creator, and begin worshiping the things He made, instead of worshiping Him. [and thus there are many sun gods in the world.]
So when God created the world, He wanted to make sure that everyone knew that the sun was simply one little piece of His great creation. The sun is no the life-giver; God is the light-giver. He made the light before there ever was a sun.

God is amazing. He has given numerous evidences throughout the whole Bible of who He is. He is not just some random god but He is the Creator God. And yet in our stubbornness mankind has turned away from Him by not worshiping Him throughout history. We should not be making the same mistake. As we stay faithful to the Word of God, I pray that we can experience our mighty God who is able to do anything!


[1] VBS: The Creator is My Friend Book #3 Theme talks, pp. 8,9.

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