January 10: Genesis 1:3 Then God said, ”Let there be light,” and there was light.

Later in the creation narrative we hear that God divided the light, and made the sun and moon and stars. That’s not what this verse is talking about. Here we are told it was just light. Light everywhere, light where there had been darkness and void. God spoke and the darkness vanished. His light is still the great vanquisher of all darkness, all shadow, all blackness. It can never be extinguished by something as puny as a dark night!