day no. 15,279: blinded by the light

Genesis 1:1-3
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

God created visible light from the invisible light He has in Himself. He is light and there is no darkness in Him at all.

1 John 1:5
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

In other words, light did not come into existence on that first day. Light existed already in God. It came into our existence that day. It manifested itself apart from where it previously resided. It shone forth. But it was not born that day per se, it became incarnate. It took on its particular form of flesh. Light in became embodied, its essence encased in luminescence. 

Natural, physical light borrows its light from a spiritual source. God, the unseen, is the essence of all that which shines. Light does not exist on its own. It owes its luminescence to God's omniscience, its luminosity to His generosity, its luster to His muster.

In one sense, it can be assumed that anyone can see natural light. It's obvious and self-evident. I mean, just look around. But we can miss the forest for the trees. Everything we see is because the light makes it visible. The light is not only something we can see, but by it, we see everything else. Yet only a few can see the supernatural source of the natural light we all see. In other words, it is easier to see the light than it is to see the Lighter of the light. 

But even seeing natural light requires God's divine grace. Ecclesiastes says people experience work, wages and what not, but cannot see the natural light of them enough to enjoy them. In other words, they don't even see what they think they see. 

Ecclesiastes 2:24-25
There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from Him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?

People take for granted that having something equates the enjoyment of its possession. But God here clearly communicates that some people are prevented from enjoying what they have. The enjoying is separate from the having and in some fashion full possession (having + enjoying) is withheld from them. They don't even see what they see. It is as if they are blinded to any satisfaction the lesser lights offer and to the greater light from where they receive their charge. A failure to acknowledge the Light leads to being blinded to that which you see. It is as though the world they live in is without form and void. It is there, but it remains hidden. It is empty until light floods in. To be without the Light is to be in the dark even when surrounded by lighter matters.