God Made Known - John 1:1-18নমুনা

Read John 1:1-3 If you know how the other gospels (Matthew and Luke) start with the first Christmas, John’s first verse might be a surprise. There are no angels, shepherds or a baby in the manger. Instead, John takes us back to the very beginning… in fact, before the beginning. We are invited to stretch our imaginations back past our earliest memories, past the earliest thing we know about our families, past all the history we know, back and back to the very start of the universe. If John’s first words sound familiar, that’s because they’re meant to. The first words of the Bible are: ‘In the beginning, God...’ (Genesis 1:1). Now John says, ‘In the beginning was the Word.’ Here in John’s Gospel, we discover something new: that in the beginning, before the universe itself came to be, before time itself, the Word already existed. Not only was the Word there before the universe began but the Word was with God. There was never a time when the Word did not exist alongside God. More than that, the Word was God Himself. The Word was not just present at creation but the One through whom everything was made. Think for a moment of every mountain, ocean, plant, animal, every human being on Earth. Then expand your mind. Think of every star, planet, comet, every faraway galaxy. Everything was made through the Word. Whatever we know of John’s Gospel, as we think about these opening sentences John is obviously dealing with much more than the history of his own life and times in the first century Middle East. What he has to say takes in the whole sweep of time and space. And if it really includes the beginning of everything, then it includes us too. Whether we’ve read John’s Gospel a hundred times or never before, he invites us to listen in, to change our perspective... to go back to the very beginning. And that’s just the first three sentences.