Bible Verse of the Day Sunday November 5th, 2023

John 1:14 The Word became fresh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

The Word did not stop to be what He was before; He was now what He had not been before, a human being. The Word held upon Himself true humanity. He was not two people, but one. He did not have two personalities, the same Person who lived from all time past took on human form.

“Flesh” in this context depicts human nature, not sinful flesh. The concept comprises more than just a human body but also a human person. John utilized the term “flesh” to challenge those in his day who rejected the idea that Jesus had a natural body (Docetism). This heresy taught that Jesus only appeared to have a physical body. These naysayers believed that God could have no actual contact with humanity. The Jews commonly thought of God as too high. To them, John wrote: “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” Antediluvian Jews had difficulty accepting that the boundless God spoken of in the Old Testament could take on human form. John told the Jewish thinkers, “The Word of God became flesh.”

God has drawn close to humanity in Christ Jesus. We don’t have to grapple to find Him; He came to us. Some falsely believe they must travel from one place to another to attempt to find God and continue their lifelong search. More frequently they stay at one location until God draws close to them and then they swiftly move to another location. Jesus appeared in a new component of existence through the entry of human birth and dwelled among imperfect humans during His short stay on earth.

The Word did not become humanity in the sense that He discontinued to be God. If a person becomes a pastor, that does not mean that he or she ceases to be a person. The Word became human without terminating being God Almighty. This is a clear indication that there was a colossal conversion to the Word’s state of being. His deity remained unaffected with humanity, furthermore, the Word’s humanity was true humanity and not some fusion.

God demonstrated and revealed His glory in the synagogues, just as the Word manifested Himself in humanity. God's indwelling in the Jewish temple in shadow is now disclosed in the Person of Jesus' humanity. In the Old Testament Shekinah was the discernible expression of God's presence among the Children of Israel. In the New Testament, the Word is now the unmistakable presence of God among all people.