Verse of the Day 6/10

Through the Bible - Jeremiah 15-17, Matthew 23:1-22

 

Good morning,

If you've been  reading through Matthew in the daily reading outlined above, recently in 16:16 you've  read  where Peter, when asked who Jesus is responded with "you are the Christ, the Son of the Living God".  Each of us have or will have to answer that question.

 

For today's verse we'll go to the book of John where he testifies of the same realization, but puts it in human terms that the Word became or took on flesh and had lived among the disciples.

John 1:14 New King James Version (NKJV)   And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

In his book, "King's Cross", author Tim Keller quotes N.T. Wright's sobering statement, "How can you live with the terrifying thought that the hurricane has become human, the fire has become flesh, that life itself became life and walked in our midst?  Christianity either means that, or it means nothing.  It is either the most devastating disclosure of the deepest reality of the world, or it is a sham, a nonsense, a bit of deceitful play acting.  Most of us, unable to cope with saying either of those things, condemn ourselves to live in the shallow world in between."

 Life itself became life and walked in our midst, how do you handle, what do you do with that statement?

 

Do we say with Peter that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God? Do we ever question it, thinking we may have been deceived?

May we not find ourselves in the shallow world in between.  In the end, there will be no middle ground.

 

He is jealous for me, loves like a hurricane, I am a tree, bending beneath His grace and mercy -  David Crowder

 

Blessings,

Mike
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The Word Becomes Flesh

   
¹⁴ And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
¹⁵ John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, "This was He of whom I said, 'He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.'"
¹⁶ And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. ¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.