John 1 ESV

[Deeplays]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this but ... in finding my way "back" to God I have read the below verse many times but it has resonated with me so strongly today.
This for me in my simple un-educated way tells me all I need to know. Hope some will understand where I am coming from. The beginning and the end ... for me I feel my own Journey to Christ will always from now stem from the below Verse.

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1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

 

[AvgJoe]

Who is the Word?

(John 1:1-3, 14) 1) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2) He was in the beginning with God. 3) All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 14) And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Who is this Word? We start to find out in the very next verse.

(John 1:15) John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’”

Then, down in verses 29 & 30, John reveals of whom he is speaking about in verse 15, the same being the Word in verses 1-3 & 14.

(John 1:29-30) 29)The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! 30)This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.’

John bore witness of the Word (v 15). John said Jesus is the one of which he bore witness(vs 29-30). Jesus is the Word.

So,

(John 1:1-3, 14) 1) In the beginning was (Jesus), and (Jesus) was with God, and (Jesus) was God. 2) (Jesus) was in the beginning with God. 3) All things were made through (Jesus), and without Him nothing was made that was made. 14) And (Jesus) was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Jesus is the Word. The Word is God. Jesus is God.

 

[PottersHands]

God is in the word's of the bible which is why when we read the bible we encounter God. Reading the words is like standing face to face with Jesus.