Mar 6 - The Word

Read John 1:1-5

Text:
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.
3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood[a] it.
Footnotes:
John 1:5 Or darkness, and the darkness has not overcome
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Words have the power to take us back to a particular moment in time. They can cause us to remember events, pictures, smells, and emotions that we felt the first time we heard them.

In this text, John is actually relating well to both Greeks and Hebrews when he wrote "the Word." The Jews used "the Word" to refer to God, and the Greeks knew it as 'logos', meaning a spoken word or a word still in the mind -- a reason. When the Greeks applied it to the universe, they meant the rational principle that governs all things (NIV Study Bible). There was no doubt in anyone's mind that John's terminology was referring to God.

Yet he says "the Word was with God". How can God be with God? This helps define Christ as a separate entity, yet still God. Those who read this text were taken back to the moments they were by Christ's side.

As God spoke, and as Christ spoke, witnesses were moved to write their words. They recorded their actions and the impacts of their actions. While many proclaim that the Bible was written by men, there is evidence that those men were inspired by God to write His words.

Do you believe this?