Since the beginning

Since the Beginning

 

In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him.

JOHN 1.1-3

Through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. . . . Everything was created through him and for him.

COLOSSIANS 1.16

Now in these final days, he has spoken to us through his Son. God promised everything to the Son as an inheritance, and through the Son he created the universe.

HEBREWS 1.2

 

While Matthew and Luke started their Gospels with the genealogies of Jesus, wanting us to see his humanness, John wanted us to see that the Son of God’s first appearance on the scene was not as a baby in Bethlehem. He has, in fact, always existed — since the beginning of time. Before the world was created or time began, the Word, who was God, was already there with God.

The word Word is a translation of the Greek word logos. It was used in Greek philosophy to indicate the “first cause.” It referred to the great unknown reason, will, and power behind the universe. John was telling us that Jesus is that first cause. He is the one who started everything, and nothing got its start without him. Jesus was the agent or the means by which God made everything in the world — from the outer galaxies in the heavens to the smallest atom.

John wanted us to know that this one who chose to enter the world is the one who made the world. This truth fills us with wonder and amazement. The God who made the world and everything in it willingly reduced himself to Mary’s womb to be born into this world.