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 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?

That even the people who walk in darkness cannot escape the fact that their thinking,

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

to life.

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