Presumption
Notice that God commanded that there be light before he created the sun (Gen 1:3, 14). We know that the sun is the source of some light, but here we discover that it is not the only source. Jesus said, “I am the light of the world” (Joh 9:5). How much of the light that we enjoy is sun light and how much is Son light? God will be our sole source of light again. In the new heaven and new earth there will be no sun because God Himself will illumine us (Rev 22:5). This discovery causes me to wonder what else I presume to know. Apparently things are not entirely as they seem.

Living versus Surviving
When man sinned, living became surviving. God said that all his life Adam would struggle to scratch a living from the earth (Gen 3:17). God did not intend for the world to be such a hostile environment. We made it that way. (If we had not sinned, Bear Grylls, from Man vs. Wild, would be out of a job!) The good news is that Jesus offers us an opportunity to turn surviving back into living. He said that if we seek His kingdom that all that we need to survive would be provided for us (Mat 6:33). I’d rather focus on finding heaven in my relationship with Christ than searching for food by scratching in the dust.