God Made Known - John 1:1-18নমুনা

Read John 1:16-18

And so we come to the end of John’s introduction. How can we see the glory of the Word, who is the light and the Son? Grace! And there is no shortage of this grace: this is an abundance of undeserved kindness from God that makes it possible for ordinary people like us to know Him.

Verse 17 begins with ‘for’, or because, and explains more of what this means. Moses, the great Old Testament prophet, was given the law by God for His people in around 1300 BC. This good law was given out of grace. This is the grace already given of verse 16.

But the grace and truth that comes with the Word is different: the Word fulfils everything the Old Testament promised and goes far beyond it making us right with God and giving us power to live as His children.

At last John tells us the Word’s name: He is Jesus Christ. And we come to the punchline of what John has to say. It is obvious that none of us can see God. But Jesus Christ makes the invisible God known. Jesus is the one in deepest, closest relationship with God, in fact He is Himself God! And so He is the only one who can show us God. This is how the grace of God flows to us.

As we’ll discover if we keep reading John’s Gospel... if we want to see what God is like, we need to look at Jesus. If we want to know what God has said, we need to listen to Jesus. And if we want to become children of God, we need to come to Jesus.

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