Pondering His Holy Word

Every now and then, I come across a meme mocking apparent Christian logic. One of them goes like this. “Day 1: God created light, Day 4: God created the Sun”. Next to it, it would either be an eye-roll or a laughing with tears emoji as a apparent jab at the apparent impossibility to have light without the sun first. By their logic, the sun had to be created first as if God need the sun to create light. When I was a new Christian, I pondered that perceived contradiction. Which begs the question, “How big is God?”
          In Genesis 1:3, “God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. In Genesis 1:15-16, “and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.” 
           So on the first day of the Universe’s existence, God decreed for there to be light with words of his mouth. Let me be just a little clearer; In the beginning, The LORD issued a decree that carried so much weight that it was honored simply by His words and light came from nothing.
          That is the immense power of God’s word; He created the heavens and the earth and all that is in them in 6 days. We work, sometimes, 7 days a week to create a little something here and there or maintain the little we do have. The Lord of the universe created everything in 6 days. How big is God? And what is the worth of His word that He can decree something and it actually happens by speaking it? The sun and moon govern the day and night respectively, but that authority was given to them from God. 
         Most scientists and humanists hold to the truth that matter comes from other matter, which makes creationism a stumbling block, or worse, foolishness. It is unfathomable that God created heaven, earth, and all that is in them out of nothing or ex nihilo simply by speaking it. Yet, the scriptures tell us just that. “By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible” (Hebrews 11:3). It is important to understand the fact that the verse says things that were seen were not made of things that are visible. 
        Even when, Jesus, God incarnate God walked amongst His disciples, He decreed unclean spirits to depart from people, He decreed that that the sick be healed, and He decreed the dead to arise (Luke 4:31-40, Mark 5:41-43, John 11:38-44). By His decree, the storm calmed by the famous words “Peace, Be still” (Mark 4:39). By the authority of His words, He decreed the crippled man to stand up and walk and decreed the man with leprosy to “Be cleaned” (Matthew 9:1-8, Matthew 8:1-4). 
          As humans, we can only create or build with what God has provided us. We can’t create life unless God has decreed it. Even if we devote something to God, we can only give Him what He already set apart for His use. Even if we do good, it’s not because we could do it on our own, but God wrote His commandments on our hearts (Romans 2:14-15). Even in our own lives, we can’t devote ourselves to God unless He decreed that our lives should be set apart for him. We can’t even control our next breath. At any moment, our souls can be required by God because He decreed it before the foundations of the earth (Luke 12:13-21, Ecclesiastes 5:8-20). We, as humans, do not have the power to decree or manifest anything unless the Holy Spirit decreed it first. 
    We serve a mighty and powerful God. His understanding goes far beyond our understanding (55:8-9). He created light simply by speaking because He is light. The sun was given authority by God to rule the day, not the other way around. In His absolute sovereignty, He decreed everything that is seen and unseen to come into existence. ​
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Genesis 1:1-5
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.