FRIDAY September 27th
John 1:2-3
‘He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.’
I have continued with the next two verses from John 1, verses 2-3 for we see here more detail concerning the Son of God, which verse 1 had referred to as the Word of God. But first a question.
Have you ever wondered what Jesus was doing as the Word before he came into this world in Bethlehem as a baby?
Well, I am going to attempt to give an answer, for firstly we can say that as the eternal Word, the eternal Son of God, or as we sometimes say as the second person in the Trinity, he would have been enjoying the eternal fellowship that would have and still does exist between God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Imagine it if you can, for they exist in perfect unity, nothing between them, in pure unspotted or untainted fellowship, total, absolute agreement.
I know that there are those (such as the Jehovah Witnesses) who argue that the word Trinity does not appear in the Bible and so it is a word conjured up to bolster the churches doctrine of the tri-unity of God, and those who oppose it cannot and will not accept the perfect eternal unity and eternal existence of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. But just because a word doesn’t appear in the Scripture, it doesn’t mean that what the word describes does not exist, and there is sufficient biblical evidence to use such a word, to describe the eternal co-existing and co-equality of the three persons of the Godhead.
In fact this takes us to the second point concerning what Jesus as the eternal Word did before he came to this world as a baby, it is found in the creation story in Genesis where we see that the three, (yes, here is a reason for the word again, the trinity), Father, Son and Holy Spirit worked together in the work of creation, and one verse in particular is found in Genesis 1:26 which says ‘Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”’
Notice it is in plural, God said, ‘Let US . . . in OUR’ I like to think that because of the perfect unity in the Godhead, that they literally all three spoke the words together in unison at exactly the same time with exactly the same emphasis! and so John in our text confirms it for us, ‘All things were made through him, and without him (Jesus the Word) was not any thing made that was made.’
And of course, we can go to Colossians 1:15-17 where we read ‘For by him all things were created . . . all things were created through him and for him . . . And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together’. And these verses lead us to the third thing we can list that Jesus was doing before he came into this world, (and still does) he was sustaining all that had been created, or upholding it by the word of his power, (Hebrews 1:3).