John 1:1 --- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Yesterday we got through the beginning of the beginning. Today we resume the journey into this beautiful first verse.
So yesterday we went way back in the timeline of Jesus, and it brought us to the beginning of beginnings, to eternity. So, we established time/location and today we find the action or verb is, "WAS". "Is Was"… yeah that sounds odd and funny when saying it over in my head. LOL.
The word "WAS" in the Greek is eimi and simply means: to exist.
In our non-stop entertainment saturated lives, it's tough to wrap our heads around an action such as, existing. I doubt we'll see Keanu Reeves starring in a riveting action film titled, 'EXIST', filled with him sitting around existing and was'ing. Silly I know… but there is this simplicity here that I'm seeing that is a trademark of our Lord. Religion makes things so complicated, yet when we really read the Bible and seek Him in it, there is a simplicity to it that doesn't humanly make sense. I mean how could something be so deep, yet so simple? With that the Lord brought me over to 1 Corinthians 18-31. It's a lot to read but it's well worth it, especially to gain insight into how God uses the simple things to force us to get our eyes off ourselves, our achievements, and our understanding and onto Him.
1 Corinthians 1:18-31 --- 18 The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God. 19 As the Scriptures say,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise
and discard the intelligence of the intelligent.”
20 So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world’s brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish. 21 Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save those who believe. 22 It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom. 23 So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it’s all nonsense.
24 But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength.
26 Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world’s eyes or powerful or wealthy when God called you. 27 Instead, God chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose things that are powerless to shame those who are powerful. 28 God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important. 29 As a result, no one can ever boast in the presence of God.
30 God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin. 31 Therefore, as the Scriptures say, “If you want to boast, boast only about the Lord.”
I know, I know, that was a ton of reading, but WOW! There is of course this infinite depth we cannot even being to wrap our minds around with God, yet this infinite simplicity that brings us to a place where we have to set aside ourselves and look to Him, because there is no other way.
In the beginning WAS the Word… you can get lost in the simplistic depths of it, but I turn it back to Jesus, who IS the Word. I'm confronted by many things in this today and the answer of it all is to just go sit at His feet and rest in His presence.
The more I try to study, the more I realize I don't know or understand. I see how easy it is to make it about me and I don't want that at all. I don't want to lean on my understanding for sure! My recaps have always been about taking what He showed me, spoke to me, walked me through and putting into a semi-logical/comprehensible way… but today as I move into this book with my prayer and my heart desiring to only find Jesus here and see Him and get to know Him more, I find it hard to express it.
Okay, that's enough of my rambling for the day. I'm honestly just overwhelmed by Him this morning, by His love, His grace, His Mercy, His holiness, His justness, and really just His presence.
Have a good day today. Know you are prayed over, and you are not alone. I have been exposed to Covid twice this week, so I find myself quarantined to my room, with nothing but this PC, so if you need prayer, to chat, or just someone to listen send me a message.
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