Word for Today, Sun, 06 Apr 2008, God in the Flesh - Jesus Christ
Posted by: masinick <masinick@...>
Dear friends,
The real and only solution to everything we face is Jesus Christ. Some people are self righteous and ignorant. They think they can do anything and everything on their own. They are most certainly wrong, eternally wrong.
Most of us do our very best, but realize that we come up short. There is potentially room for Christ, if we recognize Him as The One who can make a difference, The One who loves us and The One who accounts for what we lack.
Read the first chapter of John. I have included the first eighteen verses of this chapter using the New International Standard (NIV) version of the Bible. Use this, or compare this to other translations and use what works best for you.
To me, this passage says that many did ignore Jesus or did not recognize Him for who He is. We can either choose to
believe it or choose to ignore it, which is the same as choosing not to believe it.
Jesus, in His Grace, will not force Himself upon any of us. Then again, those who choose to ignore Him will never share in His glory, nor in His Salvation, which He freely offers today.
What have you chosen?
John 1
The Word Became Flesh
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning.
3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
6There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. 7He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. 8He himself was not the light; he came
only as a witness to the light. 9The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
10He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God - 13children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15John testifies concerning him. He cries out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.' " 16From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. 17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came
through Jesus Christ. 18No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.
Yours in Christ,
Brian
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