Let There Be Light

 

No parameters, nospeed of light nor time nor space.

Nothing to measure inlight years or miles

and then God createdthe Heavens and the Earth.

 

In and around andabove that wet, dark and formless empty earth

The Spirit Hovered.

 

From beyond thenight, beyond the heavens and apart from the Earth

God said, "Letthere be light."

And there was light.

 

Six measured dayslater God created man in His own likeness.

But man believed alie to be more like God and indeed became less like Him.

Man's thinking becamefutile, and his foolish heart was darkened.

 

Now we are measuredin time, square miles, and by the Bureau of Standards.

Into that measuredland, in a farmhouse on a quarter section in central Nebraska

God created a man,partly in His likeness.

 

Twenty measured yearswent by,

and over and aroundthat man with a dark and formless void,

The Spirit hovered.

 

Into that void,formless and dark, pierced and then flooded, a light.

For the same God whoin the beginning said, “Let there be light,”

Has now shined in myheart,

 

To give the light ofthe knowledge of the glory of God

In the face of JesusChrist.

- Jim Wilson

How To Be Free From Bitterness and other essays on Christian relationships