Light Is Atomic Energy

When Jesus said, “Let there be light,” He was literally describing the energy of Creation. He could just as appropriately have said, “ let there be atomic energy,” because that’s what light is.

All forms of matter consist of atoms, and energy holds the atoms together-energy so powerful that even when only a little gets released, we have atomic explosions. Atomic power can be a destructive force, as in the generation of electricity. Under normal conditions the power of the atom does not escape with the force of a bomb or an atomic power plant. But we are almost constantly experiencing atomic power in the form of light energy.

Different kinds of atoms have different levels of energy. When an atom absorbs energy from an outside source, such as from heat, its energy level increases. As the absorbed energy is used up, the atom’s activity may drop back to normal. In the process it may release a small bundle of energy. You see that small bundle as light. Light occurs when the atom is losing energy happens so rapidly that we see it as a continuous flow of light, but light actually consists of pulses or waves of energy.

Different colors come from the different energy levels of atomic activity. Higher levels of atomic activity produce what we might call blue photons-short wavelengths. Lower levels of atomic activity create photons that have long wave lengths and appear to us as red light. When we heat a piece of iron to its highest temperature, you see it as white because it is emitting photons of all of the visible wavelengths, or colors. When you withdraw an energy source-heat, in this case-the iron begins to cool. As it does, you first see orange and then red wavelength photons as the atoms give off less and less energy.

So when Jesus said, “let there be light.” He was quite literally calling on the force of His own creative energy as the all-powerful God of the universe-the light of the world. With a power like that to protect us, how can we ever be afraid?

A Word from Our Creator:

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 27:1.