Let there be light

Light before the sun — this always stops me when I read it slowly. God's first creative word brings light into existence on day one, but the sun and moon don't appear until day four. For a long time this bothered me, but I've come to see that the text is making a theological point, not a scientific one. The source of all light is not the sun — it is the word of God. John 1 makes this explicit: the Word was the light of all humanity, and the darkness did not overcome it. Creation is already whispering about Christ from its very first moments. Every sunrise is a small echo of that first command — let there be light — spoken by the one who is Himself the light of the world.