The Light

"Arise, alight, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you." Isaiah 60:1

Light has a habit of showing up at the beginning of things.

"Let there be light," He said, and there was. God spoke it at the start. He turned it on for us, illuminating our world when we could not. He was like the parent who comes into the dark of a child's room, flipping on the switch and flooding the space with a warm yellow glow. We, like children, could not have reached that place. We were helpless, and He gave us what we needed. He gave us our start.

He began something. He began our understanding of Him, our relationship with Him. Just as He created physical light, He created an understanding of Himself in Adam and Eve. He walked and talked with the young couple, interacting in that place of light, that place of new fellowship. He knew them, and they knew Him.

And then in that perfectly formed garden, Adam and Eve rejected the purity of who God is. In their quest for knowledge, they instead plunged themselves into darkness and confusion. Effectively, a veil dropped across the human understanding of God.