John 1:1-14

The following verses are some of the most poetic lines in Scripture.  Having just finished the Christmas season the meaning of these Words ring familiar.  Monday we read in the first chapter of Genesis, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Today we are called to the beginning once again where we discover in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.


John 1:1-5 (NIV) reads like bullet points / a parallel with Genesis 1

• 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; 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, but the darkness has not understood it. 

Can you identify when God became real to you?  Do you know when the Word became real to you?  I recognized there was a God early in life, as a very young child.  Like many children do, I grew up and found myself in a place where I still believed, but that belief meant nothing to me, until, someone allowed themselves to be used by God to reach me.  Has this happened to you?  Is this a story you should be telling so as to impact someone else with the Good News? 

Everyday is a day to proclaim the Gospel; to tell some one about the light that shines in your life.  There are many ways to do this, and today is the day to begin.  No one is guaranteed a tomorrow.



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