Eternal Word

In the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with God,

and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God.

John 1:1-2, NKJV

 

When the Spirit inspired Moses to record the Genesis account of creation, He moved upon him to pen the phrase, "In the beginning God".  Fifteen hundred years later, that same Spirit directed the Apostle John to start the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the same way.

 

In the beginning...

 

Before there was a universe.  Before there was a milky way.  Before there was a sun and its orbiting planets.  Before there was earth.  Before there was man.  Before there was anything, there was God.  Eternity past is nothing more than the eternally existent God.  The Alpha and the Omega.  The First and the Last.  The Beginning and the End.  No further explanation is ever given except this:  God Is, God Was, and God Always Will Be.

 

He was always God the Father, but He was also always God the Son, and God the Spirit.  The triune godhead is a mystery and a revelation all in one, both understandable and inexplicable.  Understandable because the Bible repeatedly shows the three-in-one nature of God, inexplicable because it continually insists upon a one-and-one-alone identity of God.  Such is a truth that we accept in faith, and then explore by the leading of the Lord as we grow to know Him.

 

It must also be recognized that the Father did not create the Son or the Spirit.  He didn't bring them into being as lesser gods, inferior or secondary extensions of Himself.  These three--Father, Son, and Holy Ghost--are all eternally existent, together and distinct, separately the same and completely equal, working together in cooperative relationship, responsibility, authority and accountability.  They each have their own roles, their own identities, and yet they are inseparable, indivisible.  They can be seen individually in the progressive revelation of Scripture, but they are still One God.

 

In the beginning God.

 

In the beginning was the Word.

 

The Word was WITH God.  The Word WAS God.  He was in the beginning with God.  He was the beginning--the originator and source--of all the things that came from God, and still is.

 

He is the word spoken by the living voice which embodies the concept and very idea of God.

 

He is the sayings of God, the moral precepts of God, the decree and mandate of God.

 

He is prophecy.  He is the declaration of God with power.  He is continuous dialogue with God and instruction from God.  He is proclamation.  He is testimony.  He is narrative.

 

He is the subject, that which is spoken of.

 

He is the mind, the reason, and the will of God.

 

Because He is God.

 

Now hear the Word of the Lord!