God’s Light in the DarknessSample

God’s logic in the darkness

When you want to know someone, you use words. You have a conversation. The apostle John calls Jesus the Word of God. It’s how we get to know God as well. John says, “The Word became flesh” (John 1:14). If you want to know God, if you want to know how he feels about you, then just look at Jesus.

When something bad happens in our lives, we look for a logical answer to why a loving God would let his child go through something bad. We don’t know why, but we still try. We want to come up with logical proof that God loves us in order to make sense of it all. But we don’t know him through logic. We learn to know him only through Jesus.

God calls Jesus the Word. The Greek word is Logos. It’s where we get our word logical from. Jesus is the “logic” of God. Do you want proof of God’s love? He doesn’t give you a logical reason; he gives you a person. Look into the manger. Look at the cross. The answer doesn’t come through a logical reason; it comes in Jesus’ moaning and sighing, in his groaning, and in his dying. I can’t tell you why something happened to you, but I do know this. It is not because God doesn’t care about you. If you want to know God, look at Jesus. Then you will see God’s logic in the darkness.