01.01.2015 Old Testament: Gen 1.14–19

To read the Bible in a year, read Genesis 1–2 on January 1, In the year of our Lord 2015

By Don Ruhl

The third day of creation ended, and the fourth day began. What wonderful things God did on the fourth day, creating huge objects in the sky,

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the fourth day (Genesis 1.14–19). 

God created the sun, the moon, and all the stars! In one day! Magnificent! Just who is our God? He made all these lights to rule, ruling the night or the day. Spiritually, light also rules the day, but the light of the Spirit does not shine on us automatically, as do the natural lights. We have to open the Spirit’s word and hear Him speak to us in the word.