Devotion for July 2, 2021
Read John 1.3-5
In these verses, John explains the implication of Jesus as God’s “Word:”
1) All things were made through Him.
2) All living things owe their ongoing life to Him.
3) Jesus, as God’s “Word,” continually sustains and preserves creation itself, keeping it from slipping back into the chaos of darkness.
In his commentary on John, Dr. Joseph Dongell writes:
“A picture emerges in which God’s creation and God’s salvation correspond to each other…Just as God created the world, gave it life, and now sustains it through the Word, so also must the totality of the world come to terms with the single agent of God’s creation. The good will of the Creator toward the creation did not evaporate in the face of human sin, but resolved to save and restore the creation…All who turn to faith in Jesus find that they walk not into the arms of a stranger, but into the arms of their loving Maker.”
“In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1.4-5).
Thanks be to God!
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