“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
Scottish Presbyterian minister Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889:
“The ‘Word’ is the eternal name for the young Child of Bethlehem. He is so called because He is the revealer of the Father, the expounder of the Godhead…. God manifest in flesh is the great mystery of godliness, which links together the creature and the Creator; which brings down to the sinner’s side the waters of the eternal well. It is this that makes the inaccessible and unapproachable Godhead accessible and approachable; the unseen becoming the seen …; the far off becoming the near …; the incomprehensible becoming comprehensible…. All the nations of the earth God has made of one blood, and of that one blood was the Word made partaker ….
“Jacob’s ladder is now firmly planted on the earth. God is coming down; man is going up…. The Seed of the woman has come. God has taken man’s side against the old serpent. He has not only knocked at man’s door—but He has come in.
“The winter is past; the rain is over and gone; the day has broken; the shadows have fled away!”
“The ‘Word’ is the eternal name for the young Child of Bethlehem. He is so called because He is the revealer of the Father, the expounder of the Godhead…. God manifest in flesh is the great mystery of godliness, which links together the creature and the Creator; which brings down to the sinner’s side the waters of the eternal well. It is this that makes the inaccessible and unapproachable Godhead accessible and approachable; the unseen becoming the seen …; the far off becoming the near …; the incomprehensible becoming comprehensible…. All the nations of the earth God has made of one blood, and of that one blood was the Word made partaker ….
“Jacob’s ladder is now firmly planted on the earth. God is coming down; man is going up…. The Seed of the woman has come. God has taken man’s side against the old serpent. He has not only knocked at man’s door—but He has come in.
“The winter is past; the rain is over and gone; the day has broken; the shadows have fled away!”
Scripture Focus
John 1:1-14
Insight
“Ponder nothing earthly minded,/ for, with blessing in His hand, /Christ our God to earth descendeth,/ our full homage to demand.” (ed. Gerard Moultrie, 1864)
Bible In A Year
- Haggai 1-2
- Proverbs 27
- Revelation 11-12