We've been thinking all this week about the wonder of God's revelation and the cosmos

and the marvel as Christians that we understand that we were made as his image for fellowship

with him in order that we might be like him, that we might know him, that we might

trust him. But we've specially been thinking about our rebellion against this revelation

and our rebellion and rejection of it. But I don't think that we should leave this

week without remembering where this story goes in the pages of the scriptures. For just

as the Old Testament begins with the words that in the beginning God created the heavens

and the earth, there's a very similar beginning isn't there to the gospel according to John.

And John echoes what Moses had written in Genesis chapter 1. And he tells us that as

Genesis 1 tells us that the creation came into being through the instrumentality of God's

Word, John now shows us that that Word was actually a person. And he says in the beginning

when God created all things, he did it through the person who was face to face with him.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was face to face with God and the Word was God.

And then eventually in the prologue to John's gospel he makes it crystal clear that this

Word is none other than our Lord Jesus Christ. He is the one without whom nothing was made

that was made. He is the one who sustains all things. And daringly John adds, he gives

light to everyone. And that's something we've really been considering isn't it? But even

the people who walk in darkness cannot escape the fact that they're thinking, they're

reasoning, they're loving, they're living, their sense that there might be some meaning

to life, their light on life is grounded in the Word who created everything. And now in

Jesus Christ the Word, the true light who enlightens everyone who has come into the world.

This is a wonderful thing for us to know, the inescapability of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ.

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