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In the Beginning was the Word!

In the beginning was the Word 
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.

In this incredible paragraph we have a summary of who Jesus is and what he has done. In an economy of words that stuns us we see that Jesus was the communication from God to man, the Word. Jesus was eternal because he was with God in eternity. Jesus is Divine because he is God. To emphasize his point, as if he had to, John says it again, "This same Jesus, was with God in the beginning. 

He goes on with another astounding declaration," All that exists was made by him". Here, if we pause to contemplate what he just said, we realize that Jesus is incomprehensible. We begin to grasp a molecule of Jesus' humility in Paul's words in his Philippian letter, "(Jesus), being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. (Philippians 2:6,7).

Imagine a puny superhero trying to control their super powers so that they can walk among, and serve, mere mortals. Superheroes are too selfish. They can't even control their own egos. They are sort of like the Greek gods of antiquity. 

Jesus's miracles, on the other hand, were tiny expressions of his divinity. He was tinkering with his creation. Every miracle that he did was simply, (pun intended), a fix of what sin had marred. He could do that easily because he was the creator God of the universe! 

Finally, John says that life was in him. And that life is the light of all mankind. Are you alive? If so, it is because Jesus gave you life. Are you alive spiritually? Be careful how you answer. 

In one of his later letters John says, (1 John 1) 5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

This amazing, God, Word, Creator, Life, wants to have a relationship with you. He doesn't need to have a relationship with you but he wants to. He is self sufficient and needs nothing or no one. But if you ask him to save you, he will. 
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