I kind of ran through creation really quickly. I took a little time this morning to look at Genesis 1:1. Spent a bit of time looking at the events of the first day.

The first day was really a busy one. Most of what is important to us was created on that very first day. Earth and Space were the first on the list, undefinable, but first. Space was empty and the earth was formless according to the text. Water was another big one, water came along with the creation of earth. That was all the Lord made of the creation of these things.

The creation of light and time seems to have come next on that first day. God made more to do about these things. I saw a little something about the creation of light today that really got me thinking. It might not be much but, God created the light, then He separated it from the darkness. That got me to thinking a bit. What does God intend for us to understand by separating the light from the darkness. Perhaps the light He created filled everything, there were no shadows, no dark spots. This is I suppose like the light of God’s judgement that shines into our lives, it lights everything, there is nothing hidden from it. This new light that God had made may have flowed around everything like water filling every crack and void. Here is what may have been. When God created light it was not linear such as the light of the sun. The bible says He divided the light from the darkness. Could it be that He made it linear after creating it? Linear being that it travels in one direction. As we shine a light on an object it illuminates that object and flows on past that object at it’s borders. The side of the object away from the light source is not illuminated by the light, it resides in shadow, or darkness.

I did a little searching around on the internet as that thought filled my mind. I found that research is now being done on non-linear light as the way forward in computing and communications. Interesting!

After creating light, separating it from darkness, He defined a day as being morning and evening. The days of creation were defined by God at the very first day. 24 hrs! The days of creation according to scripture are just like the days we have now. It has always been interesting to me that in these few short verses describing the creation of the world and space, light and dark, that God would take the time to define the length of time it took to do these things. He gave us the Bench Mark of time.

God is great! He is the creator of all things around us. He dictates how those things behave.

Everything that is made is His, because He made it. What God does with creation is His own decision to make.