Week 1
Read: Genesis 1:3
I have to leave it to the cosmologists and astrophysicists for a scientific explanation of creation, but the theological point here in Genesis does not seem to contradict what we know from science; namely, that light must precede life.
Or to say it another way: No Light. No Life.
That’s the Genesis way of saying, “God precedes everything else that exists.” That’s what the Bible is saying when it says, “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). God is the Life from which all other life proceeds.
How have you experienced God as the “Light” of your “life”?
(Note: we are often going to ponder a verse which John Stott selected for his book. That’s why we’re calling this a “modified” version of lectio divina. Feel free to choose other verses that strike you, even though we’ll accept and make use of the one selected each day in the book. Also, notice that there are other suggested readings at the bottom of each day’s page.)
Oboedire 