Jesus Llived

What Did Jesus Do?

That which was made was life in him.
John 1.4

When God speaks we hear His Word (Greek logos), and the Word of the Father that we hear is the Son. All that the Father spoke, the expression of His will, during the work of creation the Son made manifest. And all that the Father spoke was grace and truth filled, and brimming over with the life of the Son.

Yet with the Fall, all things were cut off from grace and truth and life, though not completely. But certainly the fullness of all three was no longer without challenge in the world. There was grace, but there was also evil. There was truth, but there was also falsehood. There was life, but now there would also be death. All was now so much more difficult, Man had estranged himself from God; life would be a struggle.

But there was life. Diminished from what God had intended; so much harder than it needed to be; so much sadness and sorrow when there was supposed to have been joy and celebration. Yet God continued to speak his Word, and His Word offered Man not only the best chance, but the only chance, to enjoy life, blessed life, real life.

Unfortunately Man was neither satisfied with God’s Word, nor able to abide by it. And so life remained difficult, even tragic. For, though the world, and everything and everyone in it, had been made and given life by and in the Word, the world, and everyone and everything in it, acted as if they did not know the Word. (John 1.10) Thus things continued until the Father determined that the time had come for the Son to not just manifest His Word, but to embody it, to become the Word with flesh on it, if you will. And so Jesus was born, and Jesus lived, the Word, full of the grace and truth that had always been there, but now grace and truth that could be heard and seen, that could touch and be touched.

Yet, coming directly to those the Father had called to covenant relationship, the Word, in the person of the Son, was not received. (1.11) There were, however, those who did receive the Word, who knew the Son, and so through Him became children of the Father, for such was the Father’s will. (1.12-13)

Jesus, the Word, lived! And he had come to bring life, that Man should have it and enjoy it abundantly, full and overflowing unto eternity. For in the Word, the Son, Jesus, was, is, and shall forever be life.

What kind of life do we live? Is it real life, life that is grace and truth filled? Or is it something less, something diminished from life in the Word? Do we live, and give, life abundant, full, and overflowing with the love of the Father as we abide in and do His will? That’s what Jesus did.

S.D.G.

Jim
www.jimwilkenministries.org
Marion, NC
PS 37.4