God called creation into being with the words “Let there be.”
Son of God was called into creation with the words “Let it be.”

May you “Let Be” Christ in you this 2015.
May you “Let Be” you in 2015.

The first sound of God’s voice we hear in Scripture is the divine round of “Let there be....” The first sound in that “Let there be” round was “Let there be light” (Genesis 1:3). To “see the light” has been a repeated, yet ever changing metaphor ever since that first creative burst. God’s first breath of words brought actual, physical, life-stimulating light.

Skip ahead a few thousand years. Now the symbol of “light” is not the sun, but the invention of the Thomas Edison Research Laboratories. It’s called the “light bulb.” In 1879 the research team that Thomas Edison oversaw created a filament t…