Life-spark: Certain words actually contain contagious aliveness. (John 1:1)
I love words.
Words are amazing. They’re pregnant with ideas. They’re walnuts in the shells waiting to be cracked open and eaten.
In his gospel of life, John talks about “the Word,” the most alive person who has ever lived. He says that when everything else began, the Word already was.
In the beginning was the Word … (John 1:1, NIV)
“Was.” The word ‘was’ is an existence word. To say that someone was means they existed. Things that exist do so in the present, the past, and/or the future. John says that when all of creation was in the “will exist” category, this “Word” already existed. This person that John calls “the Word” existed, exists, and will exist. He was, He is, and He always will be.
“Word.” In Greek, the language John used to write his gospel, he word for ‘word’ is ‘logos.’ Logos is defined as “word,” “reason,” “logic,” or “plan.” In the Greek culture, theology and philosophy, logos is the divine reason implicit in the cosmos, ordering it and giving it form and meaning.
So Jesus Christ, aka ‘The Word,’ is God’s logic, or reason, or idea, or purpose, or meaning. Christ is at the root of everything that was, is or will be.
Jesus was, and is, and always will be the God’s ultimate Idea. God becoming a person is one radical Idea! What kind of Idea-ator dreamed that one up? God’s passion and plans are contained in a man called “the Word.” God spoke life into existence in the beginning. He used words, words of life. Jesus is the ultimate word of Life. All things were created for Him, through Him and by means of Him.
Life-question: What is your favorite word, and what ideas are in that word?