John 1:1-2 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.”
“In the beginning” is what the Lord said to help us understand. The beginning He is speaking of is not the beginning of our lives, or of human life, or of the earth and all of creation. No it is much more grand, much more breath-taking and more mysteriously inscrutable. (Job 36:26, Isaiah 40:28) For the Lord God, He is the only God who ever was and ever will be has forever existed. He will have no end, but He also had no beginning. (Habakkuk 1:12) That is hard for us to understand. We understand the present, and can (in some measure) understand the concept that something that lives now will never perish, but to understand that God had no beginning is beyond our comprehension. We know that it is true, but to understand how it is true, is beyond our ability. To fully understand God, the essence of Him, one would have to be a God. But there are no other gods, least of all men (Whom we know are created beings). (Isaiah 44:6, 1 Kings 8:60) We have an eternity ahead to try to understand all that is God and in the eternity we are there always will there be more to know and more to be amazed at.
The “beginning” spoken of here is not a starting point. To us a beginning is a start, like the start of a race. Or even the beginning of an idea or concept. But to understand what God is here revealing about Himself (What, not how) we must think differently about what “beginning” here is relating to us. We must think of beginning not as a starting point, but as the one who pre-exists all starting points. We must know God as being preeminent before all. Here the beginning is the one who pre-existed the start of all creation because nothing could be unless someone began it. So this is God. He is the beginning of all beginnings and all things created were begat from Him who never began but always was. Therefore the beginning here was not the beginning of the Word, but the eternal preexistence of the Word.
So preexisting before all of creation was the Word. We know that only God is eternally preexisting so the Word is God. And the only one who preexisted with God is God Himself who is the triune God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The Son of God is the Word of God in the flesh as is revealed in John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
How can the Word of God be fully eternal as God the Father is? It is because the three are one and the one is three. They are wholly one and wholly three and entirely inseparable. So the essence, the nature of the one is the essence and nature of all three. What one knows all three know. What one wills all three wills. Where one exists all three exist. Forever one and forever three. So we know that at the beginning of all beginnings was the one who had no beginning. And since only God is the fully eternal one, than the Word who was with God was God. Jesus, from the beginning beyond all beginnings, was our Savior and Lord, as was the Father and Spirit who all agreed with the divine plan of salvation and all were actively creator, and part of the plan and of its appearance and manifestation. Praise our eternal God who loves us so!
The Son of God who is, was and always will be God, was with God in the beginning and who will always be God, became flesh in the form of Jesus, was born to the virgin Mary, by the will of God. The will of God to save us came from the core of Him which is love. His plan was wholly from who He is. Yes He is love. But He is also wholly righteous the just payment for our sin had to be met. Since the evil of sin does not expire, only one who was eternal could pay the price. That eternal One was and is Jesus Christ, by the design of God.
Praise the Son of God for coming to fulfill the promises of God and save our lives, thus fulfilling the will of our triune God. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning” and that being so, we are eternally grateful. The spoken Word, the written Word, is the Word who became flesh and saved us. Oh let us rejoice at the love and goodness of God. Let us gaze upon Him and admire Him. How wonderful, how glorious, how majestic is our God! Behold our Savior and Lord Jesus who is the very manifestation God who is always with us and is ready to soon call us home. Thank you Jesus! Thank you Jesus! Thank you God!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will Hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown you, Oh man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
Numbers 6:24-26 The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 The Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.