John 1:3 --- All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being.
Coming off a long holiday weekend spent with covid, it's been tough to get moving this morning. I am grateful for your prayers, and I feel much better. Now the struggle is focusing and not just laying around feeling bleh all day. LOL.
Our journey in John resumes and what an opening we find here in John. It is so unlike the other three Gospels. Those three had already been written and the birth of Jesus and his lineage had been well recorded and shared. So, John steps in and begins with establishing Jesus is the Word and came from heaven, from before the beginning.
Then today's verse really adds this depth and side to Jesus we don’t always think about. Most times we see or hear about the birth of Jesus, the ministry and miracles of Jesus, His death on the cross, His resurrection and sometimes His ascending to Heaven. Here we see an eternal side to Jesus or The Word.
Stop and really take this in, "ALL THINGS came into being THROUGH Him".
To think He willingly chose to step down from His place in heaven, with God the Father, to come here, in the flesh. To be born in it all, grow up here, eat, sleep, breathe, work, tire, weep, bleed, hurt, love, and give His life on the cross… the very One whom ALL THINGS that exist came into being THROUGH…
Just stop and really let that sink in today. I mean really, really let it sink into your mind, then all the way down to your heart.
Philippians 2:5-8 --- Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, as He already existed in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and being born in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death on a cross.
Christians, if we're going to truly obey the command in 1 John 2:6, we must genuinely KNOW Him. We've got to SEE and KNOW Jesus' walk if we're going to walk as he did. Relationships require effort and sacrifice of time and safety, letting down those inner walls to truly interact with Him.
1 John 2:6 --- whoever says he lives in Christ [that is, whoever says he has accepted Him as God and Savior] ought [as a moral obligation] to walk and conduct himself just as He walked and conducted Himself.
Don't take my word on any of this, be the Berean and get into your Bible, talk with the Lord, and look these verses up and their context yourself! Start getting to know Him, so you can walk like Him more and more every day!
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