Engaged in Communication “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” John 1:14 -- We live in a communication age. From cell phones to social media sites, electronic billboards to blogs – all around us are signs that people want to, need to, and will communicate. Why do we communicate so incessantly? We have been created by a communicating God. “In the beginning was the Word” (John 1:1). A word communicates. God has communicated His love from all eternity as Father to Son and son to Father. He loves to communicate His love and His forgiveness to people. God has made us in His image, able to communicate. You will hear and speak a lot of words this Christmas Day. How ill those words reflect your origins as one created by a love-communicating God? Jesus, the Word, communicated by showing up (“became flesh”) and by hanging around hateful people (“dwelt among us”). We can show up where people are in need, hang around with people who need God’s love, and point them to the Christmas miracle: God in flesh. Have a blessed day – and a joyous forever! For in eternity, we will have the joy of communicating our God’s forgiving love. (Blessed Jesus, as You have enfleshed and spoken the Word for us, enable us to communicate well, speaking and acting creatively to affirm Your love for others. Amen.) -- John 1:1-14 English Standard Version (ESV) The Word Became Flesh 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life,[a] and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. 9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own,[b] and his own people[c] did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. Footnotes: John 1:4 Or was not any thing made. That which has been made was life in him John 1:11 Greek to his own things; that is, to his own domain, or to his own people John 1:11 People is implied in Greek .. Psalm 43 English Standard Version (ESV) Send Out Your Light and Your Truth 43 Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me! 2 For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 3 Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling! 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God. 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.
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