“The Word became flesh and lived for awhile among us…” John 1:14
It is said of some people, “He is a man of his word.” Or, “She is a woman who keeps her word.” Our words, we wear them on our person; they go before us. Often others know us by the things we say. By our words we can reveal ourselves. Or by with our words we can conceal our true selves. Nothing is closer, more intimate to us than our words.
John, in his gospel account introduces Jesus as the word… God’s Word. There is nothing truer, nothing more solid than God’s Word. There is nothing more creative than God’s word.
Check out the beginning of the Genesis account. God’s word was the medium used to paint and sculpt the world and all the people in it. God’s word was the brush that applied the color. The very color itself was born out of the word of God. His word was the chisel that shaped and formed every facet, every concave and convex shape of this world.
This is a cause for celebratory response. You can feel it in the first words of John. “In the beginning was the word… in him was life and that life was the light of men.” (vs. 4) Isn’t this what Christmas is all about? It is a celebration of God’s Word; God’s creative word. His Word is not just breathed out into the air – His word put on skin and came to live among us for awhile.
His word is not just ink on a page. God’s word is living and active in our lives today. The word of God came in the form of a baby, born in a wooden manger; lived and breathed the air of this earth; died on a wooden cross; buried in a cave of dirt and rock, came forth from death and ascended back to the Father, the originator of the Word. Then He gave us his Spirit so that the word would live in us; in our flesh, and continue to bring forth light into darkness.
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