F O O T H O L D
READING
4 FROM ETERNITY INTO TIME
PRAY Teach me something more
about yourself today, almighty God.
READ John 1:118
THINK What does this passage
teach us about God the son? What things do
we read here that God has
done through his eternal Word?
FOCUS The Lord Jesus Christ
lived before he was born in Bethlehem; in
fact he lived before the
universe was created (1). He is eternal
mysteriously one with God.
Yet He is not God the Father, though he
was always with the Father (2).
He is called the Father's eternal
'Word'. A word is the chief
means by which we express ourselves. In
this way Christ is the One
through whom God the Father works and
speaks.
JESUS IS GOD BECOME MAN (14).
The statement 'the Word became a
human being' is the key to
John's Gospel and to Christianity. This
is the greatest mystery and
miracle of all.
JESUS IS GOD SEEKING FOR
PEOPLE. How many books and TV programs
there are on the theme 'Man
searching for God'. John's Gospel shows
us that 'God is seeking man'.
No one has ever seen God (18) but in
Jesus, God speaks and works always taking the initiative.
JESUS SHOWS US WHAT GOD IS
LIKE (17,18). The Old Testament, with
the law of Moses (17a), told
part of the truth about God. Jesus
tells us the WHOLE truth (14).
God is kind and generous to us
however undeserving we are (FULL
OF GRACE). Usually, the more we
know about a person, the
more faults we discover. But the more we
know of Christ, the more
glorious he becomes. We could fill the
world with writing about him
(read John 21:25) and even so, we
would only know a tiny part.
Only in heaven shall we see his true
glory.
PRAY Meditate upon
Colossians 1:1517. Turn your thoughts to prayer.
