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The Creator Spurned on Purpose

 The first paragraph (John 1:1-3) that John the Apostle wrote has to be one of the most incredible paragraphs ever written. The favorite disciple describes Jesus Christ's origins and man's problem in an extraordinary economy of words.

The "Word" describes God's communication with man. This Word was Jesus the Christ who was with God in eternity past. However, this Word also became man at the incarnation. (Incarnation = God being born. God taking on flesh and walking among us.)

His presence as Creator among His Creation seems as if it should have demanded automatic acceptance. But John tells us that His own didn't receive Him. His own, being the Jews, rejected Jesus, their Messiah.

Some people, these days, are talking about AI (artificial intelligence) taking over the world. Machines, created by men and women, are already able to respond to our questions. If you haven't heard Google, Alexa, or Ciri answering your comments, you may not be up to snuff on all of this. People think that there will come a day when devices will do everything, including reading our jellified minds. Apps or robots will become self-sufficient and won't need and will eventually eliminate us. Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? Happily, the Bible doesn't paint such a picture.

How could that happen? How could the creation reject its Creator? We believers in Jesus Christ understand, to a certain degree, that this is what happened as a part of God's plan, Jesus had to be rejected by His own. The repudiation included - the crucifixion and the blood atonement for sin. Jesus' short ministry was a prelude to the salvific work of God through His Lamb.

In "the Lamb," who would take away the world's sins, there was life and Light. God sacrificed His Lamb to give life, and men ignored the Light because they loved darkness more.

Are you in the Light of Jesus Christ, or have you spurned your Creator? There is an easy way to tell if you are in light or darkness, and it is John who says, "If we walk in the light as He (Jesus) is in the light, we (me and Jesus) have fellowship with one another" (1John 1:7). That means that we have an intimate relationship with Jesus the Christ and he gives us an intimate relationship with Himself and other children of God. Salvation is totally God's work but you need to do your part.
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