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.

A crux on Good and Evil, traced to First Causes.

"...thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give..."  -1 Samuel 2:32

So the pastor was speaking about God chastening us, and I was thinking of all the promises that would seem broken, if he provided our wrongs, along with our items of providence.

Would it seem that God has a mean streak, that he tests and tempers us with troubles?  Its like the saying "he who made kittens, put snakes in the grass".

But the truth of this statement is that God does have a good plan for each of us, because He loves us.

The crux of Him providing both evil and good to the believer is in the fact that God created it all: he created the evil that forsook Him to establish his own kingdom opposite God.

He created the challenger, and had that challenger Faith, Hope and Love, would not the world be so much the better these days?  If, and only if, that prince of the power of the air not turned against God, this would be heaven on Earth.

So ultimately, if we trace reasons and causes all the way back to creation, we find the God is the author of all, as some say that everything is merely the thoughts of God: all of us, the world, the sun and stars, but the thoughts of God.