Daily Devotional

The prologue of John’s Gospel account seeks to answer the question, “Who is Jesus—really?” In so doing, John focuses on a significant difference between Christianity and other religions and disciplines. Christianity is not a philosophy; Christianity is about a Person, and that Person is central to all Christian faith. While all the other great religions of earth center on the teaching, the ideas, the principles that are represented in them, not so with Christianity. Christianity centers upon a marvelous, beautiful, remarkable, astonishing Person. And Advent is the celebration of His coming to us.
John declares that Jesus “tented, tabernacled,” among us. He came and lived in a tent in our midst. John saw that human tent.
We all live in tents. But what caught John’s attention was the glory that he saw inside. That is what he says was remarkable. In three images, John tells us what was that glory:
• It was the Word made flesh. The marvelous articulation of the mind and thought of God became a soft, baby flesh. In the Greek text those two words appear side by side: “logos sarx became.” Sarx is the Greek word for flesh; the meat, the soft, yielding flesh of our human bodies. The Word, the energy of the universe, was contained in a baby’s body.
• It was the “glory of the only One who came from the Father.” The glory John saw in Jesus was the exact reproduction of the glory of the Father, because the Son reflects the Father.
• The specific nature of that glory was grace and truth. Grace is God’s unmerited favor; it is love giving itself (John 3:16). Truth is reality manifested, an unveiling and stripping away of all illusions and facades.
Jesus was full of both grace and truth. He was the ultimate revelation of what is really there in life; and He is the fullest expression of love giving itself, pouring out, reaching out to others.

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