John 14:1-14
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
God
who made the universe actually came to earth.
This must mean that we matter, that He’s doing everything in his power
to save us, that he is “on our
side”. This amazes me.
It is astonishing. It is
almost too good to be true. It’s
humbling. It’s huge.
Can anything be bigger than this?
In
him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The
light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
. . . . 9 The
true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.
. .
A second thing that this event means to me was expressed best by CS Lewis, “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else” Because Jesus is creator and sustainer of “all things”, yet He, Jesus, the Creator showed up among the created, I now see the world as his precious possession and that includes every bit of creation: every rock, animal, and human, and that includes every person I meet. Astonishingly, that even includes me. Furthermore, every event, every discovery, every bit of human experience and knowledge is in one way or another a response to or reaction against Jesus and his world. There is nothing, absolutely nothing that doesn’t originate in or live apart from Jesus. Reality is Jesus.
A second thing that this event means to me was expressed best by CS Lewis, “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else” Because Jesus is creator and sustainer of “all things”, yet He, Jesus, the Creator showed up among the created, I now see the world as his precious possession and that includes every bit of creation: every rock, animal, and human, and that includes every person I meet. Astonishingly, that even includes me. Furthermore, every event, every discovery, every bit of human experience and knowledge is in one way or another a response to or reaction against Jesus and his world. There is nothing, absolutely nothing that doesn’t originate in or live apart from Jesus. Reality is Jesus.
Yet
my behaviors still have a long way to go to catch up to what my mind now sees.
How
about you? How has God’s
having come to earth changed you?
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