Day 1: Light in the Dark

Day Uno:

So it's day one, I just read the scheduled verses for today and am already super pumped about this plan. Enough of that onto what I read.

This plan starts with the creation stories. It's a great place to start, in my opinion... you know... the beginnig... not important right now... So I've read this story probably 28 billion times give or take 1 or 2 times, but today a couple of new things stuck out to me.
As creation is happening, God makes the various things *blah, blah, blah I've read this.* God makes two lights: A greater light to govern the day & a lesser light to govern night. This isn't a huge new discovery in the Bible, I know that. I just never realized how important the moon was... and I don't mean for creating romantic scenes in movies... GOD created two lights to govern day and night. Lets go back a few verses... God creates Day (which is light/good) & Night (which is dark/absence of good). From the beginning, there is a separation between good/light and, for the lack of a better word, bad/darkness. From there my mind goes in two different directions. The first thing I think about is that God "separated the light from the darkness." It is important to realize that it is not the other way around. And the second thought is encompassed in the symbolism of the two lights governing the light and darkness.

First, let's talk about the lights. There are two things that I thought with this idea. One is that God created something to govern/control light and dark. So God is in control of good and the absence of good. That's awesome but hard to grasp for me sometimes. This idea brings up the question "why does God let "____" happen?" I don't know. I'll just put it that way. I'm just excited about the fact that God has it on lock and that He loves me. I don't know why it is such a struggle for me to trust God in rough times and so easy in the good times.  I expect the ones I love to trust me with there lives at all times, good or bad. I don't control anything...?? I feel like a hypocrite when I tell my family to trust me and then I doubt God who literally from the beginning put a choke hold on good and evil... How arrogant can I be? I'm not comparing myself to God, that's a lose-lose situation. I just feel convicted in that I would offer people assurance in troubling times and not whole heartedly rest in the assurance that comes from God. It's a struggle and It's just one of those things that I know is true. I just have to start embracing it 100%.

On to the next thought... separating Light... from Darkness. I could be reading way into this but it's what I'm thinking right now as I reread this passage over and over. Follow my progression... God separates Light from dark. God calls Light "day." God saw that light was good. Therefore Day is good. God creates all living creatures in the day. Most importantly, God creates man (you and I) in the day, which is separated from evil. From here I realized that even in the beginning, we are meant to separated from evil. We are meant to be Light not Darkness. Obviously man is not without some darkness. We all have some in there somewhere. I say all of this as a challenge to myself and others to strive to be as we were at the start.... Separated.

-Danger