Sin and Salvation (Genesis 1:2)

In Eons past a star arose in the cosmos. Of all the golden, burning orbs in the heavens, one was the most brilliant and beautiful. Of all the works of creation spun from the fingers of God, none was as great or greater than Lucifer, the Shining. The Bible tells the story of how a Morning star became the mourning star.(1) It is the story of how things made for greatness can be crushed by the weight and gravity of ingratitude. His is the story of sin. It shows how pride lifted him higher than any angel should dare to fly and how pride brought him down. (2) Turning his eyes from God’s glory, he became absorbed with what he thought was his own and sparked a brush fire of rebellion that would grow in its flaming hunger and intensity until it would become Hell itself. 

None but God and His angels witnessed this flaming comet crash-landing in a spiritual wilderness and the darkness that comes with such a fall from grace. When he was cast down from his bishopric from among the constellations, he made a “hard-landing” on a tiny speck of celestial dust on the edge of the universe. He became ruler and king of the place called Earth. (3) 

Earth was Eden and God’s answer to an angel’s arrogance. Today, Earth is not what it was, nor what it shall be. Just as the moon is pock-marked by the collision of a million meteors and left as a scarred and lifeless thing, so is every man who would challenge God. Just as the moon is held in orbit and suspended by the competing forces in space, man is suspended somewhere between heaven and Hades on the edge of Eden, in God’s moral universe. Just as the moon is light-less, unless the sun reflects and bounces off its pulverized landscape, so is any world or man, but for the grace of God. To be without God is to live in darkness. But wait, another Star, the True Moral North of Eternity (4), Jesus shines. Yes, the Bible begins with darkness, without form and void, but it is the story of redemption and grace. It is God’s answer to the darkness. And God said, “Let there be light.” Arise shine, thy light is come and His glory is upon thee. Jesus is the Son of God. Shine Jesus, shine! 

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Ezk. 28:17; 2. Isa.14:13; 2Cor . 4:4; 2Pet. 1:19