In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

John 1:1 – 5

When learning Greek many years ago, we needed to commit to memory these opening sentences of John’s Gospel.  I still remember trying to get the Greek in my head.  I managed. Ever since I have returned to these verses with awe and worship, not that I learned them in Greek but because John, through the Holy Spirit, went right to the heart of the mystery, “In Him was life…”  That makes Jesus absolutely unique, there is none like him!  My mind falters when I try to grasp what John wrote.  It is like poetry, easy to recite but very, very difficult to penetrate to the core of its meaning.

Jesus is eternal, He is the Word of God, with God in creation, the life that shines in such brilliance that we can only stand back and worship.  It is as inexplicable as it is true! 

The little newborn baby, born of a virgin in a strange shed, crying for feeding, is the Word of God, the Creator of all things, the light of the world that no darkness can put out!  Who can fully comprehend what that all means?  Fortunately, we need not explain it, just believe it with all our hearts and conform our thinking, our worship and our lives around HIM!

I live with this truth today.  May his light fill my being!