John 1: 1-2, 14
In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the Beginning with God.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and Truth.
There is so much here! When God created, He spoke. What He said is His Word.
Theologians say that the Son "proceeds" from the Father, but this infers the passage of time.
When God created, He created Time, so there was no Time before creation.
The Father and the Son and the Spirit are God. Only one God, but three distinct persons. I don't understand this, but I am not a god, He alone is God.
The Son is the Word of God, who participated in the creation. He had no beginning, He was already there in the Beginning.
And it was this Word of God that took upon Himself the flesh of being human! He came to be with us where we are, so that He could make us fit to live with Him where He is.
He became a human being, while retaining His Godhood. I don't understand this either; but I know that He needed to be the Eternal Person to pay our eternal debt in Time, and He needed to be human to die a human death, taking our place in the death we all owe for sin.
And those who lived with Him were able to see His glory in His miracles and in His Transfiguration on the mountain and in His teachings with authority.
Then they saw His glory in His Resurrection, proving that the Father accepted His payment on our behalf; displaying His grace to us in granting us the goodness we don't deserve, and the Truth that He taught, and in fulfilling the Truth in the Law and the Prophets, given to show what Messiah would do and be like. And He did accomplish the letter of all the laws, and the details of what the prophets had predicted long before.
Jesus of Nazareth, our Christ, Messiah, and Lord God Almighty, came just as it was prophesied He would do, and finished all the work He came to do.
John is writing His eye-witness account so that we will recognize Jesus as God. And he was acutely aware of how much He Loves each one of us. John calls himself, "the one Jesus loved." So he shares with us the amazing, fantastic, unconditional Love he experienced with Jesus, so we can know that God gives each of us this same Love!
Jesus Loves each of us so much that He agreed even before He made us, to be our Savior and Redeemer, so we could live with Him where He lives.
This is our Almighty God, our Creator and Sustainer, who was seen lifted up on high on His glorious Throne, and His train filled the Temple in Heaven.
O my Father, thank You so much for sending Your own Son to be our Lord and our Redeemer! Thank You that You draw Your own children to want to know You, and to come to You through Your Son. It is You who has done it all.
Please let my reach find some of Your lost sheep, Father. Let my words touch their hearts and show them how much You Love them, what You have already done for them.
And send me into Your fields, Father. Help me, strengthen me, teach me Your ways, put Your words in my mouth, and keep my eyes on You as You lead and guide me along the path You have put my feet on.
And every knee will bow, and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of the Father; giving You all the honor, all the praise, all the majesty, forever and ever.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
