In the beginning, before time began, God perfectly created the heavens and the earth in six literal days of twenty-four hours each. His first act was to dispel the darkness by His word of power, "Let there be light," He said, and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day" (Gen. 1:3-5).

On the sixth day, God created man in His own image and placed Adam in the garden of Eden to dress and keep it. He provided a help meet for Adam in Eve and perfect earthly bliss was established. (See Gen. 2:15-25). But, alas, disobedience to God's command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil brought sin with its death and spiritual darkness to Adam and Eve and the entire human race ever since.

But God contemplated this act of turning from Him even before the foundation of the world and in His eternal purpose He planned for a Life and Light Giver in the person of His eternal Son. After at least four millenniums of proving to man his helpless and ungodly condition, God sent His Son who said, "I am come a Light into the world, that whosoever believeth on Me should not abide in darkness" (John 12:46).

In John 1 we read the Lord Jesus Christ, "The Word" (the very expression of God, for He was and is God) "became flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth" (v. 14). "In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men" (v. 4). He was "the True Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world" (v. 9). But, alas, "the darkness comprehended it not" (v. 5). Sin had blinded the eyes of men and though the Light was available, "men loved darkness rather than Light because their deeds were evil." They would not come to the Light lest "their deeds should be reproved" (Jn. 3:19,20).

But there were some who welcomed the Light and came to Him. Though the Light revealed their sin, it also revealed the Saviour from their sins. As the blind man in John 9, there eyes were opened and could say, "One thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see." No longer would they ever be in the dark. Jesus said, "I am the Light of the world, he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life" (John 8:12).

At Calvary, the world thought it put out the Light of Christ forever. No, the Light of a risen, glorified Christ still shines, though ever so feebly, in the lives of those who come to Him in repentance and faith today. Of the believers we read, "Ye were one time darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord" (Eph. 5:8), to "shine as lights in the world" (Phil. 2:15).

As the moon reflects the light of the sun in the night, so the Church reflects the light of Christ in the night time of His absence. The stars are the individual believers shining in their respective places. Thus, the world is not without a testimony of the Life and Light of Christ today. "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" (2 Cor. 4:6).

This Life and Light are still available in the message of the Gospel. Those who come to Him, believing in Him, are delivered from the power of darkness and become partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light (Col. 1:12,13). They shall inhabit the heavenly New Jerusalem where the Lamb shall be The Light of that eternal city of the redeemed (Rev. 21:23). Those who do not come to The Light, but turn their backs on Him, shall forever remain in the desolation of sin and experience "the blackness of darkness for ever" (Jude 13).

Have you come to The Light? It is still shining! Come to Christ NOW and you will no longer walk in darkness, but shall have Christ, The Light of Life, forever.