God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Genesis 1:5

There was morning and there was evening on the first day…

Wait..

As Willy Wonka says, "Strike that… Reverse It...”

There was EVENING and there was MORNING, the first day.

No, God didn’t get the days backwards. Neither did the writer of Genesis. We did.

What if, just for a minute, we imagine that the day doesn’t actually start in the morning? What if it actually starts at night? Not just at midnight either, when the calendar officially flips in the middle of the night, but actually starts the evening before we even change the calendar at all?

It’s just semantics, one might say. It doesn’t really matter. A day is a day. Twenty-four hours. The sun rise and the sun sets.

But what if it does matter. Imagine for a moment how different life could be… how different God intended life to be…