It's here: Part 9 of the 9 part series - how to get prayers answered
The Rhythm of The Gospels - D19
DAILY DEVOTIONAL
7/19/20262 min read
In the Beginning, He Was Already There.
The Word became flesh — eternity stepped into skin.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
— John 1:1 (NKJV)
Come with me this morning to a time before the manger. Before the angel's announcement. Before Mary said yes and Joseph had his dream and the shepherds left their fields. Before any of it, John takes you further back than any of the other Gospel writers dare to go. Not to a beginning you can picture. To the place before beginning itself, where only God existed, and where the One we would come to know as Jesus already was.
The Word was with God. The Word was God. John says it simply, without ceremony. And then he says the thing that should stop every reader cold: the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
Think about what that means in the plainest possible terms. The God who spoke and galaxies appeared. The God before whom the angels cover their faces. The God who exists outside of time, who needs nothing, who is complete in Himself without any addition. That God looked at the human story and chose to enter it. Not to observe it from a distance. Not to send a representative. He chose to enter it. To be born. To be cold and hungry and tired. To need sleep. To need a mother.
John uses a word for dwelt that means He pitched His tent among us — moved into the neighborhood, set up in the middle of ordinary human life, and stayed. The eternal became local. The infinite became reachable. The God no one could approach without trembling became the kind of presence you could sit next to at a meal, walk beside on a road, reach out and touch.
And here is the part that is easy to read past but shouldn't be: He did it on purpose. He chose it because He wanted to be that close to you. To the specific life you are living, in the specific year you are living it, with all of its weight and wonder and ordinariness.
The Word became flesh and moved into your world. My friend, that is not a theological statement. It is the most personal thing God has ever done for humanity.
Set the theology aside for a moment today. Don't think about what the Incarnation means doctrinally. Think about what it means personally. The God of the universe looked at your life. Your specific, ordinary, complicated, unremarkable life, and said I want to be there. Write one sentence finishing this: Because Jesus became flesh and moved into my world, I know that God ________. Let it be yours, not a textbook answer.
Scripture Promise
"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."
— John 1:14 (NKJV)
Prayer:
Father, thank you for coming to redeem me. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
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