The Word

 

John 1:1-14

 What is the essence of God being with us?  Is it not that God is with us in heart and mind, being and substance?  Is it not that God is with us regardless of our differences from God and differences with God?  Is it not that God is with us by choice, out of Love, to be the Grace that we need and show us the truth of life?

 Is the logos not life?  Is it not agaph?  Is the Word Grace?  Yes, and more.  The Word is the force of life that courses through our veins and the universe, connecting all lives with one life.  The Word is the light that shines in and through all people to counter the darkness of lies in truth.  The Word overcomes falsehood, destruction, despair and death.  The Word overcomes the world and its ways that are lived out of the falsehoods of empire that lead to destruction, despair and death.  The Word endures in the universe and in these lives to enlighten everyone.  The Word is life, life abundant and life forever.

 The Word is the Word, whether received or not, acknowledged or not, accepted or not, known or not.  It is, nonetheless, the Word, and it gives the power of those who live within it to be children of God, born of Spirit and happening to live in flesh.

 The Word became flesh for a time to dwell among us and identify with us, so that we could identify with the Word in the world, address the world with the Word and transform the world through the Word.  The Word became flesh and dwelt among us to give us example of how to live within God in the world, applying the perfect love originated by God to the world, and thus transforming the world.  The Word became flesh so that we, the flesh, might become Word in the world – Love in the world, Grace in the world, Truth in the world and Life in the world.  As the Word made flesh is full of Grace and Truth, so are we who know, love and follow the Word to be Grace and Truth, and thus the flesh made Word in the world.

 So, the essence of God being with us, is the essence of us being with God – in how we live and move and have our being within God, in how we live as flesh made Word, knowing that the Kingdom of God is within and among us.  Jesus’ prayer in this same Gospel is that we would be one as He and the Father are one, in them as one.  The Word, who was with God and is God, desires to be one with us.  Transcend and Transform my sisters and brothers.  Transcend the values of this world in empire and embrace the values of the Kingdom of God.  Transform a world that is full of the darkness created by empire with Love, perfect Agape Love, so that we may live within God and know life, life abundant and life forever.  Transcend the ways of darkness and lies, the ways of destruction and despair and death.  Transform into sustainable light and life in joy and peace and hope.  Transcendence and Transformation only come through the Word – the Power of Agape Love.

 Be people of the Word made flesh.  Be the flesh made Word in the world.  The logos is agaph.