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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 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. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the wat In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. When my frantic parents found me, the rest of the tour my mom was either holding my hand or had a firm grip on my jacket.Genesis 1:1-31 First this: God created the Heavens and Earth-all you see, all you don’t see. Yes, in the chaos, I attached myself to some poor man, and was embarrassed to say the least.
When the lights came back on, I was calmly trying to adjust my vision when I looked up into the face of a complete stranger. It did not help that I had somehow drifted away from my parents just before the blackout, and I remember during those few moments feeling a huge sense of relief as I had both arms wrapped around what I thought was my dad’s leg.
Of course, they were trying to make a point about total darkness, and believe me, I was completely convinced. Suddenly, they intentionally turned out the lights, and I am not exaggerating when I say you could not see your hand in front of your face. Yes, there was a flimsy railing to prevent someone from falling into a delightful Chinese restaurant, but nonetheless I was not taking any chances. People were saying it seemed to have no bottom and I was definitely not going to the edge to confirm these statements. Anyway, we finally came to a place that opened up into a huge room that is technically called a “chamber” that also included a steep drop-off, that in my mind was nothing less than terrifying. There was decent lighting as we moved deeper through the damp tunnels but still a little scary for a wide-eyed kid. I recall that we followed a large group of people into the cave as the tour guide explained about the aragonites and stalagmites and so on. I remember as a child, probably no older than 6 or 7 years old, my parents planned an exciting adventure to Mammoth Cave. “The Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid?” Psalms 27:1. It is only when our mind has been renewed by the Word and Spirit of the Lord that by faith we can trust Him and know there is nothing to fear as long as we are holding His hand. We laugh at how silly this sounds, but fear is associated with our fallen human nature, and even as adults we are still faced with the temptation to be anxious and worried about what we cannot understand. We imagine creatures that can see us and are waiting in the shadows to grab us. When we are children, it’s common to be afraid of the dark because our natural instinct does not trust the unknown. “And the light shines in darkness and the darkness cannot overcome it!” John 1:5.
Another exciting reality is that no amount of darkness can extinguish even the tiniest light, and confirms that as creator, His authority is greater than any other power. Spiritually speaking, we were all born into spiritual darkness and are only given our vision when we invite Christ to transform us into a new creation. Thank God every morning He directs the sun to rise, which allows us to see without stumbling and having to feel our way around like a blind person. It’s amazing to think that without light, there is complete darkness.