Great Themes of the Bible
LIGHT
1. Let TuHere BE LIGHT
HE FIRST of all visible beings which God created was | light (Gen. i. 3). Not that by it He Himself might see to work, for the darkness and light are both alike to Him; but that by it we might see His works, and His glory in them, and might work our works while it is day. The works of Satan and his servants are works of darkness; but he that does truth, and does good, comes to the light, and covets it, that his deeds may be made manifest (John iii. 21). Light is the great beauty and blessing of the universe. Like the firstborn, it does of all visible beings resemble its great parent in purity and power, brightness and beneficence. It is of great affinity with the Spirit, and next to it. Though by it we see other things, and are sure that it is, yet we know not its nature, nor can describe what it is, or by what way the light is parted (Job xxxviii. 19-24).
By the sight of it let us be led to, and assisted in, the believing contemplation of Him who is Light, infinite and eternal Light (1 John i. 5), and the Father of Lights (Jas. i. 17); and who dwells in inaccessible light (1 Tim. vi. 16). In the new creation the first thing wrought in the soul is light. The blessed spirit captivates the will and affections by enlightening the understanding, so coming into the heart by the door, like the good shepherd, whose own it is, while sin and Satan, like thieves and robbers, climb up some other way. They that by sin were darkness, by grace become light in the Lord.
The light was made by the Word of God's power. He said, "Let there be light.'' He willed and appointed it, and it was done immediately. There was light—such a copy as exactly answered the original idea in the Eternal Mind. Oh, the power of the word of God! He spake, and it was done; done really and effectually, and for perpetuity—not in show only, and to serve a present turn, for He commanded and it stood fast. With Him it was dictum, factum, a word, and a world. The