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We are in these opening words of the Gospel of John, where John goes right back to the beginning. You cannot go further back than the beginning! What John is saying is that even at the very beginning, even at Creation, He already existed.

God the Son Who became the Man Jesus Christ has always been. Before anything else was, He existed, and Jesus lives today, and He always will.

You come across people who still ask that silly question, “Who made God, then?” It is like asking where is the beginning of a circle! If only people would take up the Word of God and read it and believe its teaching.

In the beginning was the word. He was with God. He was God, from the beginning! John is saying of Jesus Christ. He is eternal. He has always been, and He became and is a Person, and this Person is God. It is He Who gives you everlasting life. It is He Who came to save you because He loves you and it is He Who forgives your sin.

The Name Jesus was only given to Jesus the Son of God at Bethlehem. Why does John call Jesus the Word? Volumes have been written on this.

A word is the connecting link between two people, and a word leaves one person and enters another. God the Father has spoken to us through Jesus the Word, His Beloved Son.

Jesus Christ expressed God the Father perfectly and entered men. Through Jesus Christ God enters men. Jesus is God expressing Himself.

There was a Greek philosopher named Heraclitus, who asked, “Is there any purpose to life?” Is there any reason behind all that is going on in the world?

Is there a logos? Is there a word? He could not find the reason or the pattern or the meaning. He never did.

People are saying today, “What is life all about?” Man is for ever searching for a reason for life, and as we read and study John we see this reason and this pattern and the meaning of what it is all about.

Men are still looking for the reason, or the pattern, or the meaning – that is, if there is any reason! People are looking for the logos and that is the word translated word in these opening sentences. That is why we have Psychology, Zoology, Biology and Theology. Is there any explanation or logic or reason or pattern? We are looking for a logos. We are looking for a word, and John says, it is all there in Jesus Christ.

There was a Jewish wise man named Philo, who said that there must be a reason, a pattern, a meaning, or a logos. He went back to Creation and read, “God said”. God spoke. God created the world by a word – by a logos. Philo found the connecting link between God and what we call nature. He came so near.

Yes, there is a reason. Yes, there is pattern. Yes, there is meaning to all this.

Then John came and he said, I can tell you who the Word is. He is the reason and the pattern. He gives meaning to everything, and I can tell you all about Him and I can tell you Who He is.

There in verse 3, we have the answer. “Through him all things were made and without him nothing was made that has been made.” John goes to speak about Jesus Christ, and it is Jesus Christ who gives meaning to the whole Universe.

He made everything, and He made life! And, one day the meaning behind the Universe stepped into what He had made.

The Creator became a Creature, and we saw Him.

This is the writing of a fisherman! This is where John begins His Gospel. When we know Jesus Christ there is meaning and relevance and a pattern. The reason for why things are the way they are, raises many questions, but there are answers, if we are willing to accept these answers.

It has been said, “These words are like the spreading of honey on the tongue of a believer, yet to the unbeliever they remain a puzzle; to the unbeliever they remain meaningless.”

If these verses are meaningless and if they are somewhat of a puzzle, it may mean that you still need to know Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord and be born again.

"Today's Little Lift" from Jim Bullington

Comfort in Isaiah II (12-14-10)