Genesis 1: 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth.
2 The earth was formless and void, and
darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving
over the surface of the waters.
3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and
there was light.
4 God saw that the light was good; and God
separated the light from the darkness.
5 God called the light day, and the darkness
He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the
surface of the deep
But then, the Holy Spirit moved. As Jesus said, “It is the Spirit who gives
life.” (John 6:63) Across primordial puddles,
the Spirit moved, planting the seeds of life and Creatively tending the soil
that His labor would bear much fruit. But
harvest was still a few days away.
Seeds need sunlight, and the Earth was too dark for God’s
liking, so He bathed the planet in light, maybe all the light, the full
spectrum from gamma rays to radio waves and all wavelengths in-between and
beyond. That was too much, so God dialed
back the light, tempered it with darkness shading and shielding with electromagnetic
cycles that divided the spectrum into the gentlest colors of the prism.
Yeah, that was good.
There are two sets of night and day in Genesis 1:5. There’s a day-and-night and an
evening-and-morning. The first pair are
physical phenomena. The second pair are
intervals of time. God gave primordial
light, filtered of its destructive extremes, a name. He called it day. The now tamed and
cyclical darkness that divided the light, God called that night. And that first
cycle of filtering darkness to filtered light to filtering darkness observed by
the unborn and under-evolved seeds of life on Earth, God marked as
special.
God needed a special name for this interval of time,
something bright and good.
God had done a lot of work, so He called it a day.
---Anderson
T. Graves II is a writer, community organizer and consultant for
education, ministry, and rural leadership development.
Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is pastor of Miles Chapel CME Church in Fairfield, Alabama;
executive director of the Substance Abuse Youth Networking Organization (SAYNO); and director of rural leadership
development for the National Institute for Human Development (NIHD).
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