The real source of light

I learnt something recently about light which I share, a lesson from the Bible for Christians and for everyone. We always think about the sun as the source of light, and essential to all greenery. But the creation story in the beginning pages of the Bible has a beautiful little but important lesson about the origin of light. As per the Creation Story, God made light on the first day, but made the sun on the 4th day. In between He made all the trees, vegetation, fruits etc. So the light as well as the green earth did not have the sun till day 4. Why? Why was the sun not created before light, or with light? (especially since when Genesis would have been written, then as now] it would have been natural to see the light coming from the Sun]

The Fathers explain that this happened this way to show us and to teach us the lesson that God is the source of light, not the sun.

(2012)