Joel Osteen

You would think it would be the reverse.

The morning and the evening were the first day, but God starts the day in the dark.

At 12 a.m., nothing looks any different.

If you didn't have a watch, you wouldn't know you've entered a new day.

It's still dark outside, looks the same as it did at nine o'clock, at 10 o'clock, at 11 o'clock.

There's no sign that something has changed.

But when the clock strikes midnight, in that one second, when nothing looks any different, it goes from p.m.

to a.m.

It's still dark, but it's a new day.

It would make more sense if God started the day in the light.

When the sun came up at six or seven in the morning, when the dawn breaks, the light comes, then it's obvious we would know it's a new day.

We can see it.

Things have changed.

We hear the birds start chirping.

The sun comes over the horizon.

We have all this evidence that we've entered a new day.

But on purpose, God chose to start the day in the dark.

It's symbolic of how he does things in our lives.

He gives us a promise.

He says we've come into a new day.