Daily Java: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. … 14 The 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.
Everything on this earth has a beginning. God doesn’t, but he is not on this earth. We are. Humans are. It is really hard to try to think about the eternality of God. He has always been. All of his parts (?), if you can call them that, are eternal. They have always been. They will never cease. He is eternal, he is omniscient, he is omnipresent. If there is one thing that is absolute, it is, as Revelation says, he is, he was, he always will be.
And the Word has always been there, because he is God.
But Jesus had a beginning. The man named Jesus began nine months before his birth when the angel came to Mary. That is hard to remember. The man, Christ Jesus, the Messiah, he who was our Savior, began. And in him the Word dwelt, the fullness of the Deity living in bodily from (Colossians 2:9).
As our Savior, Jesus was human. We have to remember that. If he were not human, all of the trials he went through were worthless. And, not only that, but the comments Hebrews makes about him learning obedience, about the fact that we have a high priest like us, yet without sin, would be of no real worth. And if he was not really human, the experience of God made human would not be real. Which means, of course, that Jesus didn’t really die. If he were not human, he couldn’t.
But he was. And he did. And he rose from the dead. Because God made him human. The Word was made manifest in humanity when Jesus came into being.
The Word is eternal. But Jesus, that physical manifestation of the Word, was human and as such had a beginning.
What a sacrifice for God that he made himself as human (Philippians 2) and lived with us so he could die with us and raise with us. God be praised!
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