John 1:1-2<\/b>\u00a0\u201cIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.\u00a0 2 He was with God in the beginning<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the beginning\u201d is what the Lord said to help us understand.\u00a0\u00a0The beginning He is speaking of is not the beginning of our lives, or of human life, or of the earth and all of creation.\u00a0\u00a0No it is much more grand, much more breath-taking and more mysteriously inscrutable. (Job 36:26, Isaiah 40:28<\/b>) For the Lord God, He is the only God who ever was and ever will be has forever existed.\u00a0\u00a0He will have no end, but He also had no beginning. (Habakkuk 1:12<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0That is hard for us to understand.\u00a0\u00a0We 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.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We know that it is true, but to understand how it is true, is beyond our ability.\u00a0\u00a0To fully understand God, the essence of Him, one would have to be a God.\u00a0\u00a0But there are no other gods, least of all men (Whom we know are created beings).\u00a0\u00a0(Isaiah 44:6, 1 Kings 8:60<\/b>)\u00a0\u00a0We 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.<\/p>\n
The \u201cbeginning\u201d spoken of here is not a starting point. To us a beginning is a start, like the start of a race.\u00a0\u00a0Or even the beginning of an idea or concept.\u00a0\u00a0But to understand what God is here revealing about Himself (What, not how) we must think differently about what \u201cbeginning\u201d here is relating to us.\u00a0\u00a0We must think of beginning not as a starting point, but as the one who pre-exists all starting points.\u00a0\u00a0We must know God as being preeminent before all.\u00a0\u00a0Here the beginning is the one who pre-existed the start of all creation because nothing could be unless someone began it.\u00a0\u00a0So this is God.\u00a0\u00a0He is the beginning of all beginnings and all things created were begat from Him who never began but always was.\u00a0\u00a0Therefore the beginning here was not the beginning of the Word, but the eternal preexistence of the Word.<\/p>\n
So preexisting before all of creation was the Word.\u00a0\u00a0We know that only God is eternally preexisting so the Word is God.\u00a0\u00a0And 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.\u00a0\u00a0The Son of God is the Word of God in the flesh as is revealed in\u00a0John 1:14<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us.\u00a0\u00a0We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
How can the Word of God be fully eternal as God the Father is?\u00a0\u00a0It is because the three are one and the one is three.\u00a0\u00a0They are wholly one and wholly three and entirely inseparable.\u00a0\u00a0So the essence, the nature of the one is the essence and nature of all three.\u00a0\u00a0What one knows all three know.\u00a0\u00a0What one wills all three wills.\u00a0\u00a0Where one exists all three exist.\u00a0\u00a0Forever one and forever three.\u00a0\u00a0So we know that at the beginning of all beginnings was the one who had no beginning.\u00a0\u00a0And since only God is the fully eternal one, than the Word who was with God was God.\u00a0\u00a0Jesus, 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.\u00a0\u00a0Praise our eternal God who loves us so!<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0\u00a0His plan was wholly from who He is.\u00a0\u00a0Yes He is love.\u00a0\u00a0But He is also wholly righteous the just payment for our sin had to be met.\u00a0\u00a0Since the evil of sin does not expire, only one who was eternal could pay the price.\u00a0\u00a0That eternal One was and is Jesus Christ, by the design of God.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.\u00a0\u00a02 He was with God in the beginning<\/i>\u201d and that being so, we are eternally grateful.\u00a0\u00a0The spoken Word, the written Word, is the Word who became flesh and saved us.\u00a0\u00a0Oh let us rejoice at the love and goodness of God.\u00a0\u00a0Let us gaze upon Him and admire Him.\u00a0\u00a0How wonderful, how glorious, how majestic is our God!\u00a0\u00a0Behold our Savior and Lord Jesus who is the very manifestation God who is always with us and is ready to soon call us home.\u00a0\u00a0Thank you Jesus!\u00a0\u00a0Thank you Jesus!\u00a0\u00a0Thank you God!<\/p>\n
Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/p>\n
Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will Hear\u00a0me.<\/p>\n
Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has\u00a0shown you, Oh man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; and what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of you, but\u00a0to do justly, to love\u00a0mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.<\/p>\n
Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0The\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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