Let It Be according to God's Creative Word

In today's first reading, Genesis 1: 1-19, we are presented with the beginning of God's creation of our world, a world covered with darkness, "a formless wasteland," prior to God's intervention. God spoke "Let there be light," and "there was light."  He then "separated the light from the darkness. God called the light 'day,' and the darkness he called 'night.'"  He spoke again, saying "Let there be a dome in the middle of the waters, to separate one body of water from the other." And so it was. God spoke again, saying: Let the water under the dome [under the sky] be gathered into a single basin, [which God called the sea] so that the dry land [the earth] may appear."  God then called forth vegetation of all kinds  to cover the earth and lights to appear in the sky, separating day and night and to "mark the fixed times, the days and the years."

To this very day, each created thing functions according to the boundaries and purposes for which each was brought into being. Night follows day every day! The four seasons follow each other every season.  Vegetation of every kind reproduces its fruit year after year. And each of the vast oceans and seas stay within the boundaries God set for them as well!

God spoke, period! God continues to speak to this very day. If God says, "let it be," it is as God commands.  Jesus showed us this side of God during His public ministry. The winds obeyed Him. Storms ceased, when Jesus spoke to them. Diseases were healed.  The dead were raised. Demons fled and came out of anyone of whom they had taken possession.  Through the power of God's Word,  good continues to happen and evil continues to be rendered powerless for those who have faith, as it was, also, for Jesus.  On the cross, darkness and death, also,  had no power over Him. He rose from the dead and the darkness of Calvary gave way to the Light of the Resurrection. The same will be true for us as we give credence to our faith in Christ Jesus, beginning with the good you and I bring forth today and the evil that flees in the face of God's grace at work within and around us--at work because we call upon our God to help us transform darkness into light, chaos into order, sickness into health, hatred into love, evil into goodness and so on!