all things done in the dark will come to light

#All things done in the dark will come to light full

In the Greek Pantheon, each god competes with the others. Even Zeus-king of Olympus-is outwitted and manipulated and frustrated by the mischievous wills of both gods and men. Elohim is not at all like this. He rules, full stop. This is the doctrine of God's sovereignty, and it is inherent in the word “God.” God by definition is the eternal being whose will reigns supreme and unchallenged. Thus, we call God “Lord” or “The Lord Almighty” or “King of kings and Lord of lords.” What happens, happens because God wills it to happen. There is no higher will than God’s, there is no will strong enough to compete with God, and there is no realm where God is not present and where his will does not rule. Witness first the power of God: he speaks, things happen. In other words, what God wills happens. As Basil of Caesarea explained in his sermons on Genesis 1: “The divine will and the first impetus of divine intelligence are the Word of God.” God spoke light into existence.Īnd God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light (Gen. God called the light 'day,' and the darkness he called 'night.' And there was evening and there was morning-the first day (Gen. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 1:1-2)Ĭreation was a structureless, lifeless, lightless, and watery chaos. And the Spirit of God hovered like a mother bird over the chaos. He loved the chaos, cared for the chaos, and was about to develop the chaos over a period of six days. Remember that we shouldn’t, strictly speaking, talk of “six days of creation,” for creation was achieved in a moment. Rather, Genesis 1 describes six days of God enlightening, ordering, filling, and enlivening his creation. This is day one:Īnd God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.

And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” (Gen. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. The first two verses of the Bible proclaim, Human beings have a natural love for light. It is no wonder, for light and all it represents was the very first thing that God introduced into his creation.

All things done in the dark will come to light