To my ear there are few passages more wonderful than John 1:1-14. Yesterday I read it in The Message, a paraphrase by Eugene Peterson. He has a wonderful treatment of verse 14:
The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like Son, Generous inside and out, true from start to finish.
The wonder of this verse is couched in John’s simple beginning:
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being
4 in him was life,and the life was the light of all people.
He takes us back tot he creation of the world and leaves us huddled in the darkness looking for the light.
We live in a day when darkness seems so pervasive. But darkness does not overcome light – the light always overcomes the darkness. Into the darkness of the world came the light of life – the light of the World – the Word became flesh and blood and moved into the neighborhood.
May the God of Advent move us into our neighborhoods taking the light of Christ with us!
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