And the Evening and the Morning Were the First Day: Genesis 1:5

Genesis 1:5  •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 6
If the Scriptures were uninspired, we should surely have reversed the order, and have written that the morning and the evening were the first day. Man's mind runs naturally on morning first and then evening. We speak of the morning of life, and of the evening of life. Darkness for man follows light. We have first the infant, then the child, the youth, the mature man, the old man, the decrepit man, and finally comes the darkness of death.
The Scripture phrase, evening first and morning last, is designed and inspired. Man fell. Spiritual darkness intervened. Spiritual ruin took place. The Spirit of God moves. Light enters the soul of man. "The darkness is past, and the true light now shineth" (1 John 2:88Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. (1 John 2:8)). Not only is this true in the broad sense of the word, but true in the history of numberless individuals. And if it is a question of the course of this world for the Christian, we read:- "The night is far spent, the day is at hand " (Rom. 13:1212The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. (Romans 13:12)). Spiritually whether with the individual or the world, it is evening and then morning, darkness and then light. Light will eventually triumph over darkness. Hallelujah! "The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day (Prov. 4:1818But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. (Proverbs 4:18)), a day that never knows a morning, and will never know an evening-an eternal day.