Get Real November 16 Devotional
November 16, 2024
John 1:1-4 | 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.
Daniel and his friends get graduate degrees while in exile in Babylon. They decide to flourish where they are and embrace their captivity as an opportunity. Their strategy has great support in the gospel of John. The paragraph from chapter one we read for today is a manifesto for engagement with truth wherever we find it.
Jesus, John claims, is the Logos. This amazing Greek word was a favorite of philosophers. It could mean Word, Ordering Principle, Rationality, or Law. The Logos was the one through whom, by whom, and for whom everything else was created. The origin of every truth, natural or spiritual, anywhere in the universe, is the person of God himself. (The Logos was with God and was God). This passage inspired the early rise of science in the West, because it meant that the universe itself was explorable, since it reflected the rationality of its Creator. Cultures, like nature, can be explored and studied and wherever truth is found that truth belongs to the God who is active everywhere as Creator and Ruler of every sphere.
Meditate on John 1:1-5.
