This is the first of a series of Advent meditations, for my family and anyone who wants to follow along. It is intended to help keep our focus on the Reason for the Season, and lead up to the themes of our Christmas services this year.
1.
The Word of God
This
name is about as basic as a name can be: a name is a word for
something and our Saviour is called The Word. This encompasses every
other word in existence, in every language, and all of the essence of
language, and thus the totality of discourse, all reasoned
communication (for that is what words are for, smut and gibberish
notwithstanding), all expressed thoughts, all formulated
propositions, and all delineated conclusions. Our Lord is all of
those things, and all of those things proceed from His essence if
they have any meaning at all. So if something is named or discussed
or described or proposed or concluded, it can only happen because
Jesus is named, revealed, described, presented and finished as our
Lord. That is quite remarkable to consider. If words were gibberish,
if words were random, if words had no fixed meanings, if words were
not strung together in some reasonable and knowable order, we could
not understand one another's thoughts (granted, even with words we
sometimes cannot) or find meaningful ways of acting together. My
“Ulka bulunga ti” could mean “Let's go have ice cream,” but
you would never know. But because our Lord is The Word, we have
meaning and order and possibilities for communication.
When
God speaks, He speaks through Jesus' essence, and that essence came
to earth Incarnate, to us, to give meaning to our lives and
discourse. Blessed is The Word.
Genesis
1: 3ff
John
1:1 ff
Revelation
19: 11- 16
Thank you for your Advent meditations, for sharing them here. They have always been edifying to me so I'm looking forward to what you prepare this year.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts on The Word
Also- the world came into being by the Word that God spoke "Let there be light!"
" In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."
We communicate with words and have language as you described above and it is a *proof* that we are created in the image of God and that human life is sacred and precious, not just another form of animal life. No other creatures have this word.
And another- DNA is the longest "word" with all the letters in the perfect order for life. And yet also has limitless varieties in the messages it contains for every single form of life on earth.
DeleteP.S. DNA is 13.5 billion letters long!
Deletehmm, the comment I wrote for this didn't post either, but Thank you, Pam, for your thoughtful comments.
ReplyDeleteSuch interesting thoughts, both you, @Sarah Marie, & @Clayvessel! Thank you! :D
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