it wasn't me

For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, 

who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God 

in the face of Jesus Christ.

2Cor.4.6

In the beginning, God didn't see a speck of flickering light struggling for survival in the blackness of space. He didn't take it up gently and coax it into a spark, didn't feed it and stoke it until it exploded into Daylight, divisible from and irreconcilable with Night.

How could it be, apart from Him?

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.

Gen.1.1-2

There was nothing. Without form. Void. Darkness. Nothing.

Then God said,

"Let there be light":

and there was light.

Gen.1.3

In my beginning, God didn't find me struggling, wallowing in the darkness and filth of sin, loving yet hating it, searching blind for a way out. He didn't see my outstretched hand and come to lift me up, didn't take that little glimmer of truth and nurture it into a steady flame.

How could it be, apart from Him?

And you He made alive,

who were dead in trespasses and sins.

Eph.2.1

There was nothing. No feeble gasping, no clinging desperate to a last fading spark of truth. Darkness. Nothing. Dead.

Then God said,

"Let there be light":

and there was Light.