From the void primeval, and then becoming the era of God's love.

"before the sun is just a bright spot in the night time..."

Light, hermanos, is the creation of God.

"Light, be" says our wondrous Creator.

Naturally, such as in the void of space, the light is not diffuse, and there is no bright sky such as we know it.  The sun is just like a really blight light bulb, whereas here on the surface of the Earth, the entire sky has brightness when the sun is shining.

Think of it such that one cloud passes before the sun mid-day.  The sky doesn't go completely dark, you see, because there is luminance, or a measurable brightness about it. 

But in the dead of night, the world is more like the days of old, save for the stars shining, the days of creation, before there was light.  In those days, the apostle John cryptically states, "the Word was with God".

The uncreated universe, the void primeval, and God thought to fill that with something, and such the manifesting of love began, and then after, a fellowship in His Word.

I say all this lest we forget what it was, and what it yet could be, as God's miracles unfold and unfurl here in our world.

"no fear in love"

John brooks partly-mystic, saying that God is Light, God is Truth.  Christ is the Divine Word.  He gives us something more than a "daddy-motif" or the Jewish Messiah, but something that transcends those concepts, those sects, and those regions, to reach into the very concepts of nature itself.

No darkness at all in God or Christ.  No untruth at all.

Perfect Love, without fear.

a preliminary blurb about the Apostle John's Theology.

In the Apostle John's writings, he not only has multiple titles for Christ, including the "divine Word" or "inspired Word", meaning his is a very real and pressing manifestation of God, but he also has terms for God in theological terms.

God is light: "in him was no darkness at all."

God is truth: "[if we are not true believers]then we do not the truth."

God is love: in the communion of brotherly love, we are united at once by objective truth and that communal love in our fellowship.

GOD=LIGHT=TRUTH=LOVE.

extra selections and verse memes for December 2, 2022

God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. -1 John 1:5
 

 

The moral law does not consider our weaknesses as human beings; in fact, it does not take into account our heredity or infirmities. It simply demands that we be absolutely moral. The moral law never changes, either for the highest of society or for the weakest in the world. It is enduring and eternally the same. The moral law, ordained by God, does not make itself weak to the weak by excusing our shortcomings. It remains absolute for all time and eternity. If we are not aware of this, it is because we are less than alive. Once we do realize it, our life immediately becomes a fatal tragedy. -Oswald Chambers

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself. -Oswald Chambers

Always to have an eye to the LORD's eye and an ear for the LORD's voice--this is the right state for the godly man. His God is near him, filling the horizon of his vision, leading the way of his life, and furnishing the theme of his meditation. What vanities we should avoid, what sins we should overcome, what virtues we should exhibit, what joys we should experience if we did indeed set the LORD always before us! -Charles Spurgeon