Prayer: Come, Lord Jesus, into my life and into the life of Your world.
Scripture Reading: John 1:1a
In the beginning there was the Word.
Devotional: There was no time when Jesus was not. Because of our human limitations of time and space, there is no way to speak of “non-time” so we speak of “the beginning”, and to say that there was no time when the Word was not, we say “In the beginning was the Word.” This, of course, means that God has always been the Trinitarian God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, One God.
Years ago there was a religious writer names Robert Capon who in one of his extraordinary books talks about the difficulty humans experience with the eternal nature of the Trinity. He says something to this effect: many of us sort of look at Christianity as we would a football game. That is God the Father, the Creator, plays the first half of the game. In the third quarter, Jesus Christ plays and then in the fourth quarter, it is the Holy Spirit who plays. But the reality that can only be believed is that God's Oneness and Threeness has always been.
This means that the Messiah we await in Advent and receive at Christmas took the form of a newborn babe; not as we do as humans as the first episode of our early life, but as a continuing expression of God's love for this world. Jesus Christ was from the beginning. Becoming both human and God was the most extraordinary act of love of God for this world since creation. And it is because of this most significant birth that the world alienated from its Creator early on, has been reconciled by God unto God's Self.
The baby we welcome is the Creator, Sustainer and Redeemer of this world – all time, all space, all creation.
Prayer: Come, Lord Jesus.
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