Picture of the day - October 9, 2007

"Let there be light"

Photo courtesy of Martin Boose. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good...  --Genesis 1:3-4 The very first thing that God did after creating our amazing world was to create light with which to illuminate it. In His infinite wisdom, He knew that the living creatures He would soon be placing upon the earth would need to be able to "see" in order to get along in their new surroundings and live their lives in the manner that He had planned for them. When our glorious Creator uttered those four small, yet amazingly powerful little words - Let there be light - the stark darkness that had covered the planet was instantly replaced by the heavenly glow of the sun. As satan found out when he made the foolish decision to rise up against Him, God is the most powerful being who has ever lived. So powerful is He that there is literally nothing that is impossible for Him to do or create simply by uttering a few words. I believe that the sunlight we wake up to each morning is a symbol of God's limitless power and the amazing love He has for His children. I also believe that He allows the sun to go down each night to remind us that He alone gave us life and He alone has the power to take it away from us. Light is also a symbol of perfection. In Genesis 1:26, God created Adam and Eve in His own image, placing them in the Garden of Eden where they had everything they could ever want in order to live happy lives free from all cares and worries. Perfect and upright, they were sinless and without blemish in the eyes of their Creator. In a nutshell, they found themselves standing in the light of God's perfect love. But then they made the poorest decision ever made by human beings... Allowing themselves to be influenced by the serpent (satan), Adam and Eve disobeyed God's explicit instruction not to eat the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden. With the first bite of that forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve plunged the entire human race into eternal darkness and placed us all on a one-way path to a fiery hell. But in His infinite love, God made a way for us to find redemption and step back into the light. He sent His glorious Son Jesus Christ to lay down His life as a perfect sacrifice to atone for our sins. Jesus bled and died on the cross, bearing the enormous weight of the sins of the world (yours, mine and everyone else's). All we have to do to avoid spending eternity in hell is to accept the gift of life and redemption that Jesus made available to each and every one of us through His perfect, loving sacrifice. A single verse from the New Testament sums it all up: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  --John 3:16 Visit the POTD Archives for previous "Pictures Of The Day"!     Submit a photo of your own!            Why I publish the "Picture of the Day"