Reflections on the Gospel of John

John takes us back to the start of everything, to the beginning. Because this is a spiritual view and not a historical view, we can see with eyes of faith what it was like before anything existed that we see today. The beautiful and life-changing truth that comes from his view is that when nothing else was around, Jesus was there. He, the blessed Word of God, is everlasting in every sense. Before there was anything, He was there. After this world and the universe comes to an end, He will be there. He was alive in the time of Abraham, Noah, and Moses, as well as in the days of our great-grandparents, and is with us today. Not only is Jesus the Son the eternal Word that John mentioned, but also is one with God the Father. They are inseparably linked as one everlasting being, but with separate functions and personalities. They are together as one might see any couple of figures, but also connected as the Divine Godhead with one essence, one purpose, and one substance. John doesn’t make any equivocation here. He said it plainly for all to read, Jesus is God. The man who was born to Mary, who performed miracles throughout His life, who died on a Roman cross and was resurrected from the dead, is God Himself. For us, that means when we read about Jesus, we are reading about God, for Jesus showed mankind what God looks like and how God acts. God truly became man and lived among us, but when doing so He gave up none of His divinity. Jesus the Lord was God in the flesh. He always has been and always will be our Creator, Redeemer, Savior, and King.