The Word

John 1:1-2

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.

The Incarnate Word is Jesus, the eternal, preexistent, one-of-a-kind Son who is Himself God. What a passage!

• The Word was from the beginning predating time.
• The Word was with God dwelling with God.
• The Word was God. What a declaration!
• The Word is identified with a masculine pronoun, He...
• The Word (He) made all things. He was the agent of creation, the creation of all things.
• The Word was life, and the Life (He) was the Light of men to shine in the darkness and overcome it.
• The Word (He) was not known by the world.
• He (the Word) came to His own but they did not receive Him.
• He (the Word) gave the right and the privilege to become sons of God to those who believe in Him and were born of God.
• The Word (He) became flesh and lived among us revealing His glory, the glory of the only Son from the Father.
• He (the Word) was full of grace and truth.
• He (the Word) through His fullness gives us grace upon grace (saving and sanctifying).
• He (the Word) is grace and truth.
• He (the Word) makes known the Father whom no one has ever seen.

What a Word is this! No ordinary word, but instead a living, breathing, Divine Word. For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from His sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. Once again the Word is identified with a masculine pronoun. Jesus, the Living Word, is the Truth because of that He can discern and divide, reveal and expose, and save and judge. Because He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, He came to bring saving grace and make known to me the Father. What grace is this!  What a Word is this!

Father,
Teach me what this really means, what it means to have the living Word dwell in my life, and to receive this saving grace and truth.
In Jesus name,
Amen